88 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Wednesday, December 7 — 9 a. m. 



The session was opened by singing the doxology and prayer by 

 Eev. Mr. Knight. 



The Secretary announced that before the meeting he had been 

 called upon by a great number of horticultural papers to send a report 

 of the meeting as soon as it closed. Now as it was impossible for him 

 to write a dozen or more different versions of the meeting, and he did 

 not like sending duplicate copies to each paper, he now proposed to 

 call for help, and had selected different persons to report for ditferent 

 papers. He made the following announcement of appointments made 

 to report for the following papers : 



REPORTERS. 



O. Judd Farmer— Z. T. Russell, Carthage. 



Prairie Farmer — G. W. Hopkin', Springfield. 



Country Gentleman— N. F. Murray, Oregon. 



Colman's Rural— E. S. Curry, Thayer. 



Rural New Yorker— R. E. Bailey, Fulton. 



Kansas Farmer— C. W. Murtfeldt, Kirkwood. 



Iowa Farmer— Henry Speer, Butler. 



American Garden and Fruit Trade Journal— I. M. Rice, Sarcoxie. 



Fruit Growers' Journal — Samuel Miller, BluflFton. 



Nebraska Farmer — F: A. Hubbard, Carthage. 



Western Rural, Chicago— W. C. Freeman, Brookline. 



Farmers' Review, Chicago — F. G. Espenlaub, Rosedale. 



Iowa Homestead, Des Moines — Samuel Kaufman, Thayer. 



Western Farmer, Madison, VYi>!. — A. Nelson, Lebanon. 



Farm, Field and Stockman, Chicago— Jacob Faith, Monte vallo, 



Canada Horticulturist, St. Catherines, Can. — D. A. Elobinett, Columbia. 



Ohio Farmer, Cleveland— J. N. Menifee, Oregon. 



PRUNING, THINNING, GATHERING, PACKING. 



The above subject assigned me in the program, I presume, is intended to be 

 confined to the apple. An apple tree, if properly trained in the nursery, will need 

 but little pruning at time of setting. All roots that are injured in digging should 

 be cut oft'; the top should be pruned at time of setting in proportion to the amount 

 of roots. If too much top is left, the roots which are struggling to gain a foot-hold 

 in the soil will be taxed beyond their power of endurance, and the tree will make 

 but little growth, if indeed it does not die. Young trees can be sufficiently pruned 

 during the summer by rubbing off all superfluous shoots, if attended to at the 

 proper time. All limbs that cross or rub against each other should be cut off. 

 Avoid cutting large limbs if possible, but if it must be done, paint the stump at 

 once with white lead. The distance the top should be formed from the ground is 

 somewhat a matter of location. On our high prairies where strong winds prevail, 

 three and not to exceed four feet high is enough. In the timber and sheltered 

 locations they may be higher if desired. 



