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not only the shipping interests of the great lakes, but also the claims which 

 the agriculturists and fruit growers of Michigan feel that they have upon your 

 attention. Your memorialists would with great pleasure acknowledge the 

 great good which has already accrued to the State by the organization and 

 establishment of these signal stations along the lake borders. But the agri- 

 culturists and pomologists of Michigan feel not only their interests involved, 

 but their capital at stake, to be as great and as worthy of your consideration 

 and protection. Your memoralists would therefore further pray, that at as 

 early a date as practicable, your department do organize and establish at such 

 points throughout the State as shall hereafter be determined, signal stations for 

 the spreading of alarms at the approach of storms, to the end that crops exposed 

 to destruction and loss may be housed in safety. And to this end we pledge 

 you the co-operation and support of this Society. The memorial was adopted. 



The President, Mr. Dyckman, having returned from his flying visit to Eaton 

 Eapids, along with the Treasurer, S. L. Fuller, a recess of ten minutes was 

 taken, at the close of which invitations were submitted from several gentlemen 

 and manufacturing interests of the city, to visit their establishments; also 

 from Hon. E. W. Pendill to accept of a dinner at his house on Thursday, and 

 on motion it was voted to give Thursday forenoon, till eleven o'clock, to this 

 purpose, and to proceed to Mr. Pend ill's, at the latter hour. 



Prof. E. C. Kedzie, of the Agricultural College, chairman of the committee 

 to whom was referred, at the January meeting, the report of Mr. H. E. Bidwell 

 on the subject of the yellows in peaches, made a statement in reference to the 

 report, and, being the only member of the committee present, submitted the 

 report without recommendation. The Professor referred to the importance of 

 the question at issue, and said it should be carefully considered and thoroughly 

 understood before any decision be made, as it is one involving the comity and 

 good will of peach-growers within the State, besides the question of the con- 

 tinuance and prosperity of peach-growing as an industrial resource of the State. 

 The disease known as the yellows first made its appearance in Philadelphia 

 about one hundred years ago, and appeared to have been aggravated by crop- 

 ping the soil too heavily, or, in other words, by planting and raising other crops 

 in the peach orchard. It is desirable to know whether the disease exists, and 

 what are its causes and nature, and whether there is any cure for it. Whether 

 it is caused, as some claim, by a miscroscopic fungus, by atmospheric influences, 

 or by some condition of the soil, ought to be ascertained at as early a period as 

 practicable. The Professor recommended the appointment of a committee 

 which should embrace a chemist and microscopist, to make a thorough exam- 

 ination whether any disease exists in the peach tree in this State, and, if any, 

 the cause and remedy therefor, if possible. The verbal report was accepted and 

 the committee discharged. 



Prof. Holmes, in reply to a communication in the Michigan Farmer relative 

 to the Primate apple, by "J. P. T.," submitted a paper Avith extracts from 

 published reports of 1850, and thereabouts, giving a history of this apple, the 

 first of the summer apples, and which was originally named by its discoverer 

 or propagator as the Kough and Ready, having been brought out at the time of 

 the Zach. Taylor campaign. 



Prof. Holmes offered the following resolution, which was adopted : 



Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed, to consist of three pomol- 

 ogists, one microscopist, and one chemist, to which shall be referred the ques- 

 tion of the yellows in the peach in our State : That they shall visit any district 



