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STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



E. H. Peters, Benton Harbor, R. 3. 



Frank Ortlepp, Coloma, R. 3. 



W. W. Knapp, Watervliet, R. 4. 



Geo. E. Pullen, Benton Harbor. 



Juan Hess, Benton Harbor, R. 5. 



Henry Pollard, Coloma, R. 3. 



J. T. Johnson, Watervliet, R. 4. 



John Slenker, Coloma, R. 2. 



Chas. Hennesey, Watervliet, R. 4. 



L. J. Deming, Riverside. 



Fred Bishop, Hartford, R. 1. 



C. C. Kniebes, Watervliet, R. 4. 



R. E. Vernnon, Benton Harbor, R. 5. 



H. W. Biastock, Sodus. 



Geo. P. Pullen, Berriien Springs. 



John O. Brien, Benton Harbor, R. 5. 



J. P. Versavs^, Sodus. 



Wm. Hicks, Benton Harbor, R. 2. 



B. J. Earnan, Benton Harbor. 

 Chas. Tibbites, Benton Harbor, 156 Ed- 

 wards Ave. 



B. Bartram, Benton Harbor, R. 4. 

 A. K. Thompson, Niles. 



C. T. Jones, Benton Harbor, R. 6. 



W. J. Davis, Benton Harbor, 193 Ohio 

 Street. 



D. L. Ringle Benton Harbor, R. 4. 

 C. A. Leland, Benton Harbor, R. 4. 

 George Friday, Coloma. 



Carl Tabor, Sodus. 



Jacob C. Weber, Watervliet. 



A. F. Sheldon, Riverside. 



M. Thar, Riverside. 



N. E. Wadsworth, St. Joseph, R. 1. 



F. McKee, Benton Harbor, R. 3. 



L. Camfield, Benton Harbor, R. 4. 



December 1-8, 1910, the Berrien County Horticultural Society met in connection 

 with the State Society at Benton Harbor and it was a meeting of great benefit 

 to the local fruit growers. 



January 26, 1911, George Friday of Coloma gave a very interesting talk on 

 peaches, pointing out that the fruit growers should give them better care and 

 study his local conditions more. 



M. Thar of Riverside followed with a very interesting paper on strawberries. 

 Mr. Thar has been a very successful strawberry raiser and claimed that they 

 should have the best of culture and should always be mulched. 



February 28, 1911, the Society held its annual spray meeting. C. A. Pratt gave 

 a talk on the methods of making home-made lime sulphur and pointed out that 

 it was cheaper and just as effective as the commercial. 



Donald Dickinson, a young fruit grower of Benton Harbor told of his methods 

 of growing fancy pears. He has been very successful and claimed it was due 

 to his not neglecting any of the operations necessary in the culture of fancy 

 fruits. 



R. A. Smythe followed with a talk on legislation, telling of the bills that were 

 up for uniform package and one requiring the growers to put their names on their 

 packages. 



Frank Howard gave a paper on his methods of spraying apples. He has 54 

 apple trees and the summer of 1911 he raised over 700 barrels on those trees. 

 Below is his method of spraying as he gave it to the society: 



Spraying the Apple Orchard. — The first spray to be applied to the trees should 

 be sulphur and lime for scale, any time in March when it is not freezing. Get 

 at this work early before your other work gets too pressing or the last day or two 

 of your spraying may get slighted. We make our own mixture or sulphur and lime, 

 cooking it by steam, it costing $3.40 per 50 gallon barrel, not Including our work 

 or fuel. Great care should be taken in applying this spray or many scale will be 

 missed and left to breed the coming season therefore your time and money will 

 be thrown away. 



The second application, we believe, should be Bordeaux mixture applied at the 

 rate of 4-6-50 before the buds start. This is the spraying to control the apple 

 scab so do not delay. 



Third application, Bordeaux mixture 4-6-50 adding 3 pounds of Arsenate of 

 Lead, apply just before the blossom buds open. Don't delay this application until 

 half of the blossom buds are open or if you do you will do more harm than good. 

 Fourth application, just after the blossoms fall, using 3 pounds of Arsenate of 

 Lead to 50 gallons of water. This spraying we believe to be the most important 

 one for the control of the codling moth. Do not delay this application a week or 

 ten days for delay may mean a loss of half of your crop. 



Fifth application to be applied from twelve to sixteen days later using lime 

 sulphur solution at the rate of one and one-half gallon of the mixture to fifty of 

 water, adding 3 pounds of Arsenate of Lead. 

 We use now only two applications of Bordeaux mixture during the season. The 



