120 GENERAL HISTORY. 



J. N. Stearns invited attention to the question " How much Profit is there 

 in Care ? " saying, in effect, that it, to his apprehension, expressed nearly or 

 quite all the profit to be found in apple culture. 



*' The Effect of a Reputation in Marketing Fruit " was shown in a short 

 note from S. B. Peck, of Muskegon, read by the secretary, as follows: — 



'*Inl8G9my brother, Frederick B., sent, among many other barrels of 

 pears, to his commission agent in New York, one of specially selected and 

 uniform specimens, containing 153, by count. This was sold to a retailer 

 for fifty dollars. In 1870 another barrel of the same count sold for the same 

 price, and in 1871 another barrel, counting 12G, sold for forty dollars. These 

 pears were of his own raising, of the Angouleme variety, and the barrels 

 intended to hold two and a half bushels each. The fruit was simply laid in 

 bare, the head pressed in and nailed. As to any secret about the prices, the 

 facts were that his name as grower and shipper, with the count on the head, 

 was before known as a reliable guarantee as to count, size and condition. It 

 is further related that the retailer, on opening one of these barrels, readily 

 sold to one person twenty of these pears for one dollar each. My brother 

 then lived in Ontario county. New York." 



A letter was read from F. B. Johnson, of Lansing, on " Market Apples in 

 Central Michigan," putting Red Canada at the head of the list for profit. 



Granville Cowing, of Muncie, Indiana, was quoted as saying, " I have 

 carefully tested every blackberry of especial promise that has appeared since 

 the introduction of the Lawton, and have found but three varieties that have 

 proved profitable in this latitude — Snyder, Wallace and Taylor." 



T. T. Lyon then read the report of the committee on new fruits. 



The committee on fruits exhibited awarded th€ first premium for market 

 apples to F. H. Parker, of Eaton Rapids, for Baldwin, Red Canada, and 

 Northern Spy. Second, to J. N. Stearns, Kalamazoo, for Baldwin, Jon- 

 athan, Red Canada. 



For cooking apples, first, to J. N. Stearns, Kalamazoo, for Rhode Island 

 Greening, Northern Spy, Baldwin. Second, to Emmons Buell, Kalamazoo, 

 for Northern Spy, Rhode Island Greening, Wagener. 



For dessert apples, first, to D. C. Loveday, South Haven, for Jonathan, 

 Melon, Red Canada. Second, to Emmons Buell, Kalamazoo, for Jonathan, 

 Red Canada, Northern Spy. 



For finest plate apples, first to Emmons Buell, Kalamazoo, for Tompkins 

 King. Second, to J. M. Blowers, Lawrence, for Red Canada. 



Finest plate pears, first to Henry King, South Haven. 



The display of fruits, aside from those awarded premiums, was large, fine, 

 and in unusual variety. 



The committee on delegations reported eleven local societies represented 

 aside from the delegates from New York and Indiana, and a large number of 

 visitors not delegates from societies. 



At the opening of the session of Wednesday evening W. W, Tracy, chair- 

 man of the standing committee on garden vegetables, submitted a report on 

 several articles of comparatively recent introduction. 



The remainder of the session was devoted to the announcement of senti- 

 ments by Secretary Garfield, with responses by persons called out for the pur- 

 pose. 



At the conclusion of this exercise the committee on resolutions submitted 

 their report through Professor Charles D. Lawton, their chairman, which 

 was adopted by a rising vote. 



