INDIAI^A llOETICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 399 



man, Benjamin Ruhl, M. E. Horner: music committee, Misses Edith 

 Mills and Nellie Eshelman and John Seagley. 



RECEIPTS. 



Cash balance on hand, December, 1900 $0 65 



Membership dues, 1901 23 50 



Premiums of State fair and State societies 8 50 



Sale of apples 1 00 



License fund 55 00 



Total $88 65 



EXPENDITURES. 



Delegate to State meeting $10 50 



Printing programs 3 50 



Printing receipt book 1 25 



Benton Harbor trip 9 00 



Express on apples 1 15 



Plates 20 



C. M. Hobbs, expenses 8 00 



Miscellaneous 3 50 



Total $37 10 



Balance on hand $51 55 



The society is getting out a year book which will contain names of all 

 members, progi-ams for the year, names of all committees, thirty pages or 

 more of advertising and much other information of value. 



The apple crop in Lagrange County was light and a fair crop of small 

 fruits. The season was very dry. 



SELECTIOI^S— MISCELLANEOUS. 



HORTICULTURE OF INDIANA. 



Indiana is essentially a fruit-growing State. There is no part of its 

 soil that can not be made suitable for the production of fruit of some 

 kind. There are portions, however, that are better adapted to the growing 

 of wheat and corn or grazing, on account of the prairie character of the 

 soil, or the climatic conditions which render the cultivation of orchard 

 fruits a precarious business. By referring to the weather bureau map it 

 will be seen that the mean annual isotherms for the year 1898, and the 

 same will hold approximately for a series of years, are quite irregular in 



