THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT. 3S 



tree. The spore has gone through one of the stages of existence and has 

 produced some of the summer spores on the different form of the same 

 fungus, and that has covered the trees easily ; in the spring it has gone through 

 some of its stages of growth. 



Q. Mr. Taft and other professors in the college have made the statement 

 that by applying the copper sulphate in solution of 3 pounds to 50 gallons 

 of water, .sprayed on the bare wood Avould destroy the winter spores. He 

 has made that statement in public. If that won't do it, we want to know 

 it. We don't want to spray the bare wood to kill something that is not 

 there; and if it is there, we need to know it will kill it. Will it kill it if it 

 is there? 



Prof. Hedrick: The winter scabs, apple fungus, are found only on the 

 leaves, and that on the leaves will be found the seed from which comes the 

 disease on the fruit late in the spring; but from the scabs very early in the 

 spring come the summer spores. On the early spring spraying we kill the 

 early spring spores, not the winter spores. 



WORDS OF GREETING. 



Mr, C. G. Woodbury, of Purdue University: I feel rather delicate about 

 interrupting this discussion here. I think much more good might accrue 

 to the society from hearing some other thoughts from other gentlemen 

 on this spraying proposition than from anything I might have to say. 



I will say, however, I am very glad to be here. I am sorry I must go so 

 soon. My lot is cast in Indiana now, but I am formerly from Michigan; 

 Michigan was my home, and I feel at home in any meeting of the Michigan 

 Horticultural Society. It alwaA^s does me good to get back whenever it is 

 possible for me to do so. 



I was in the northern part of Indiana. I knew this meeting was to be 

 here at this time, and I seized the opportunity to come up for one day's 

 session. I wish I could stay during the whole meeting, but I must go back 

 to my adopted state now tonight and be at the meeting of the Indiana Horti- 

 cultural Society tomorrow morning. 



I shall take pleasure in carrying the greetings of the horticulturists and 

 fruit growers of Michigan to those of Indiana, and I am sure they will be 

 very glad to hear from you and know what a fine program is going on up here. 



The conditions down there are not materialh'' different in many ways 

 from the conditions up here. The October freeze of last year in the northern 

 half of the state especially results in just about as serious problems to our 

 fruit growers as it has to you. In the southern part of the state it did not 

 hit us quite so bad of course. The conditions of the crop this year, of all 

 horticultural crops, especially of apples, are very similar to the conditions 

 in the fruit belt in Michigan. That is, a scattering crop; in some orchards, 

 a good crop; in others near by, none at all. Those of us who compete for 

 apples in Indiana this year, however, are getting very good prices for them. 

 Some of our apple growers are selling their crops for five dollars a barrel; 

 and some of our peach growers, although the peach crop is very light, their 

 crop netted them $3.75 a bushel in some cases; and our melon men — southern 

 India'iia is a great melon country you know — numbers of them made $200 

 an acre or more on plantations 30 to 75 acres in size. So that, for the most 

 part, although we met with some reverses, we are not discouraged. And! 

 I want to say right here that I am very glad to see the spirit that the fruit 

 growers in the fruit belt of Michigan are showing with respect to the October 



