STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 149 



REPORT OF AWARDING COMMITTEE— CLASS VII, 



CANNED FRUITS. 



Best Jar Red Raspberries — First premium, C. B. Rockwell, 

 Hamilton. 



Best Jar Black Raspberries — First premium, C. B. Rockwell, 

 Hamilton. 



Best Jar Cherries — First premium, Miss Clara Smith, Hamil- 

 ton. 



Best. Jar Plums, &c. — First premium, C. B. Rockwell, Hamil- 

 ton. 



Best Display of Canned Fruits and Jellies — First premium, C. 

 B. Rockwell, Hamilton; Second, Louis Duchesne, Lacon. 



Mrs. Arthur Bryant, 

 Mrs. Henry M. Dunlap, 

 Mrs. A. C. Hammond, 



Committee. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Johnson — There is much uncertainty in the statements 

 made by the committees. You will notice in the reports that the 

 kinds of apples to which the premiums are awarded are not 

 given. 



Mr. Bryant — There has been considerable complaint as to the 

 enforcement of rule seven, and I would suggest that the words 

 in rule seven: "or no rewards will be made" shall be changed to 

 "or the fruit will not be entered." Motion carried. 



Adjourned. 



THURSDAY AFTERNOON. 



HOW SHALL THE FRUIT GROWER MAINTAIN THE 

 FERTILITY OF HIS SOIL. 



BY E. A. RIEHL. 



The question as stated implies that fruit growing exhausts the 

 soil. I think, however, that fruit growing exhausts the soil far 

 less than common farming. To be sure, if the same ground be 

 kept a long time in the same fruit, be it strawberries, raspber- 

 ries, blackberries or any other fruit, the crops will become less 



