2 STATE IIORTICULTUKAL SOCIETY. 



C — Horticultural Education. 



1. In tlie schools. 



2. In the home. 



3. Apprenticeship. 



4. In the college. 



5. In associations. 



G. Experience and observation. 



D — Horticulture as an Adjunct of the Farm. 



1. The orchard. 



2. The garden. 



3. About the house. 



4. In the house. 



5. Upon the highway. 



E — Pomology and the Pocket Book. 



1. The market — how to reach and manipulate it? 



2. Honest packing. 



3. The knife — when and how to use it? 



4. Advertising at Fairs. 



5. Fruit raising for money as a part of mixed hus- 



bandry. 



It will be seen that there are but five general topics for discussion, but we 

 want to get information upon any and all the subjects named in the scheme. 

 If you cannot be present, send me a letter or a postal card with observations 

 or experiences, or facts to be presented at the meeting. 



Local committees on reception, entertainment, exhibit, and music, have 

 already been selected. All who are to attend from outside of Hudson and 

 vicinity should drop a postal card to Mr. C. B. Stowell, Hudson, Michigan, 

 or to the secretary of the State society. 



The doors will be open to all who desire to receive or are willing to impart 

 information upon Horticulture and Pomology. 



OHAS. W. GARFIELD, Secretary, 



Grand Rapids, Michigan. 



The publication of the above sclieme created a large interest in the meeting, 

 and the attendance throughout was large even although the weather was very 

 inclement the first day. 



The meeting convened in Fowle's Opera House at 1 o'clock P. M., February 

 28, as originally planned, with President John Harkness, of the Farmers' 

 Union, in the chair. After prayer by the Rev. D. R. Shier, Dr. Smart, 

 president of the village, gave a cordial welcoming address, which was responded 

 to appropriately by President Lyon. 



The general subject for the afternoon was ** Mechanical Horticulture," upon 

 which Mr. S. W. Dorr led with a paper entitled 



BUILDINGS FOR KEEPING WINTER FRUIT. 



This subject has engaged my attention for a number of years, and I have 

 given much time and thouglit to it, hoping thereby to subserve my palate and 

 pocket book at the same time. 



I take it for granted that many of our apple orcliards are not considered a 

 profitable investment; that they are not as remunerative as they ought to be, 

 considering the time and labor expended on them. In proof of this assertion 



