TRANSACTIONS OF WARSAW HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 235 



Warsaw Horticultural Society, 



FOR THE YEAR 1875. 



WITH THE PRINCIPAL PAPERS AND DISCUSSIONS 



REPORTED BY B. WHITAKER, SECRETARY. 



The operations of this Society for the year just closed have not been 

 marked by any extremes, either in the advanced progress of discussion, 

 or a want of zeal to keep up with the progress of the times. 



The work laid out at the commencement of the year has been fol- 

 lowed up ; the regular meetings, except that for September, have been 

 held. It will be noticed that occasionally incidental and agricultural 

 subjects have been discussed ; many of the members of this Society being 

 farmers, such subjects are to them of special interest. The reasons are 

 obvious: Agriculture is the paramount interest; Hancock county pro- 

 duces five million bushels of corn, more than half a million tons of hay, 

 besides improved stock, fat cattle, and hog products. These interests 

 are paramount to horticulture ; hence, occasionally, their discussion, 

 as of interest to nearly all. In the absence of any agricultural organi- 

 zation in the county, this Society has occasionally lent its influence and 

 aid in promoting the interests of the farmers. The Society represented 

 the interests of Hancock county in the election of officers of the State 

 Board of Agriculture, and have for many years distributed the reports, 

 premium lists, etc., of the State Board, in this county. Notwithstand- 

 ing, however, this apparent digression, the Warsaw Society is strictly a 

 horticultural society , and so acknowledged in all its operations. 



