STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



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STANDING COMMITTEES FOR 1871. 



Gentlemen on these Committees are expected to act independently, and each is 

 requested to report upon his topic with reference to liis particular district — North- 

 ern, Southern, or Central, as the case may be. It is believed that important facts 

 and principles may be discovered, relating to the conditions to which fiuit culture in 

 Illinois must conform, by a careful study of atmospheric phenomena, our soils, 

 insects, and birds, in connection with vegetable physiology and the hygiene of 

 plants. 



METEOROLOGY: 



KORTHKRN. 



James W. Tollman, 



Winnebago. 



CENTRAL. 



Wm. M. Baker, 



Champaign. 



SOUTHERN. 



John H. Tice, 



St. Louis, Mo. 



J, Shaw, 



Mt. Carroll. 



GEOLOGY AND SOILS : 



W. F. Bliss, 



Nokomis. 



H. C. Freeman, 



La Salle. 



BOTANY AND VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY: 



H. H. McAffee, T. J. Burrrill, George Vasey, 



Freeport. Champaign. Richview. 



Wm. Le Baron, 



Geneva. 



ENTOMOLOGY: 



C. V. Riley, T. A. E. Holcomb, 



St. Louis, Mo. South Pass. 



Jona. Periam, 



Chatsworth. 



ORNITHOLOGY: 



G. W. Minier, 



Minier. 



Jas. E. Starr, 



Alton. 



ORNAMENTAL AND TIMBER TREES: 



Samuel Edwards, 



La Moille. 



J. W. Fell, 



Normal. 



George Vasey, 



Richview. 



H. D. Emerv, 



Chicago. 



FRUIT PACKAGES. 



E. A. Riehl, 



Alton. 



P. R. Wright, 



South Pass. 



TESTING NEW VARIETIES : 



1. J. W. Cochran, Blue Island. 4. M. L. Dunlap, Champaign. 



2. Samuel Edwards, Mendota. ^. B. PuUen, Centralia. 



3. D. B, Wier, Lacon. 6. H. J. Hyde, Godfrev. 



7, P. R. Wright, South Pass. 



AD INTERIM : 



A. M. Brown, Villa Ridge, Pulaski County. 



E. Daggv, Tuscola, Douglass County. 



A. R. Whitney, Franklin Grove, Lee County. 



