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W. N. Grover, moved the adoption of the following: 



Besolved, That this Society offer a premium of $5 in cash for 

 the greatest profit to be realized from one-fourth of an acre of land 

 during the year 1883, by a 1)oy under sixteen years of age. The boy 

 to be or to become a member of this Society, or be the son of a 

 member. A report of the kind of crop raised, the manner of culti- 

 vation, and the sales or value of the crop, to be presented to this 

 Society. 



A. C. Hammond, chairman of Committee on Evaporating and 

 Utilizing Fruits, reported: 



A cider- and vinegar-making, fruit- and vegetable-evaporating, 

 canning, and jelly-making establishment is evidently practicable and 

 a pressing necessity in Warsav^% and if well managed will surely pay. 

 Action should be had in this matter at once. Ten thousand dollars 

 and a suitable manager would inaugurate a l)ooming and profitable 

 enterprise in Warsaw, and as fully one hundred thousand bushels of 

 fruit annually goes to waste in our vicinity alone, shall we have it? 

 We shall see. 



ON EXHIBITION. 



Fine pure apple cider, by A. C. Hammond; large fine winter 

 pears, by Isadore Vancon; and Russets, Winesaps, Willow Twigs 

 and Ben Davis apples, by several members. 



A FKUIT-EVAPORATING AND CIDER-MAKING ESTAB- 



EISHMENT. 



At the March meeting of the Warsaw Horticultural Society, 

 held in this city Wednesday, the committee appointed at a former 

 meeting to consider the practicability of establishing a fruit evapor- 

 ating and cider making establishment offered their report, which is 

 published below. Time and again we have urged the desirability of 

 such an institution, and it seems almost useless for us to say anything 

 further if what we have already said has not impressed our people 

 with the importance of the enter j)rise. But as the constant dripping 

 of water will wear away the most stubborn rock, so possibly an in- 

 cessant prodding will arouse our people to their interests. The season 

 is upon us for work, if we exjject to accomplish anything, and if we 

 should go to work immediately and push the p;roject earnestly from 

 this day on, we would only have time enough to get the institution 

 in working order to receive the first fruit products of the year. 



