THE FEBRUARY MEETING. 263 



Mr. Mott, of Battle Creek, oflfered the following resolution, which was 

 adopted. 



Resolved, That 0. J. Dietrich be authorized to collect a full assortment of 

 Alden Evaporated Fruits and Vegetables, arranged in a neat and tasty case, 

 and send to the Vienna Exposition under the auspices of the State Pomologi* 

 cal Society. 



Mr. Lyon read an essay entitled the History of the Grapes recommended bt 

 the Societv. 



CONCLUDING PROCEEDINGS OF THURSDAY. 



The Pomological Society held no session Thnrsday morning, but the mem- 

 bers who desired to avail themselves of the opportnnity to visit the most impor- 

 tant of the manufacturing establishments of Battle Creek and vicinity, accepted 

 the invitation extended on the day previous, and in the face of a driving storm 

 of cold, snow, and wind, but carefully wrapped in blankets and bufialo robes, 

 made the tour of observation, and finally concluded with a bountiful collation 

 served at the farm-residence of ex-Mayor Pen dill, a mile and a half west of 

 Battle Creek, where that gentleman carries on a large farm and dairy. 



For the kindness and courtesies shown them by Mr. and Mrs. Pendill, the 

 Society tendered a hearty vote of thanks. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



The Society resumed business at half-past one o'clock, when T. T.Lyon, from 

 the committee to recommend the number of trees and vines of each kind to be 

 planted by orchardists and fruiters, submitted a report which was accepted. 



Mr. Schuyler said he got from six to seven pounds per bushel of evaporated 

 fruit from the Vandevere Pippin. 



Mr. Hanford spoke in favor of the Primate. 



Mr. Lyon would put the Early Harvest first on the list, and not the Primate. 



Mr. Hanford held that there was profit in thinning fruit. 



The list as recommended by the committee, however, was not attempted to 

 be changed, as it was the general judgment that, taking the main characteris- 

 tics of the classes named, it was the best that could be settled upon as far as 

 present experience enables those interested to judge. 



The President here called the attention of the audience to three cases of 

 insects placed on exhibition by Mr. G. M. Bodley, of Battle Creek, a hard work- 

 ing mechanic, who has made a valuable and striking collection of several hun- 

 dred specimens. 



The question of the protection of fruit trees from winter winds and cold 

 storms was then taken up, and the theory of the protection offered by a belt or 

 tract of woods on the exposed sides of an orchard was advanced by gentlemen 

 who had marked its effects, and at the same time as stoutly denied by others, 

 who gave instances where orchards fully exposed to the most direct blasts of 



