INDIANA HOETICULTURAI, SOCIETY. 643 



Mr. DeVilbiss: I second the motiou. 



(The motion was carried.) 



Prof. Latta: I think all of you here are interested in this work, and 

 you have certainly heard some good talks here within the last two days, 

 and it will now rest with you to do the rest. You can carry out these 

 ideas if you like, and put them to practice on your farms or in your 

 orchards. This is one of the objects in starting these meetings. If they 

 are of service we want the meetings to be held. During the coming 

 winter we will hold more of the Farmers' Institutes than ever before 

 in the history of the work. The plan is to hold the mstitutes in the 

 county in proportion to the area, and the number of days will vary from 

 two to five in the largest counties. I think this county entitled to four 

 days, according to the area. I hope the people of this county will rally 

 to the support of Mr. Stanley, who takes up the work for the first time, 

 and needs your co-operation to push the work forward to the success 

 that it ought to have. This is a sample of the work that is being done. 

 I think you have had a high-class sample. Now, it is up to you to make 

 use of the sample. It is simply a pattern for you to follow, and I trust 

 that you will go out with the determination to support your chairman 

 and make these meetings that are held in your own county a success 

 during the coming winter. These remarks will apply to all the counties 

 as well. The meeting will now stand adjourned. 



NATIONAL FRESH FRUIT EXHIBITS. 



TATER READ BY WALTER S. RATLIFF. BEFORE THE WAYNE COUNTY HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



When county fairs are held, special efforts are made to secure exhibits 

 of fruits of various kinds from the districts in which these local displays 

 are made. These may include many kinds of fruits, or they may eml)race 

 only such varieties as are available at the time of these exhibitions. In 

 the limited space generally allotted and for, the want of time that is 

 necessary in the collection and' care of exhibits, together with the light 

 premiums generally offered, the displays are far from being extensive. 



In State ^xhil)itions, where fruits are shown, grown in the several 

 counties of each State, more effort is made to make and maintain larger 

 and more varied exhibits than are found at local fairs. In these, special 

 efforts are made to exhibit a larger number of varieties of the staple 

 kinds of fruits, as well as plates containing the best speci'mens of each. 

 In order to do this, later methods of keeping fruits out of season have 

 been employed in many cases by the exhibitors. This materially enlarges 

 the usefulness of State fairs over local ones wherever held, as naturally 

 the number of people attending them would be larger, stimulatin.g ereat-r 

 effort to make these State exhibitions m'ore complete. 



