REPORTS OF AUXILIARY SOCIETIES. 541 



WASHTENAW COUNTY POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



REPORTED BY SECRETARY GANZHORN. 

 OFFICERS FOR THE YEAR 1887. 



President — J. Austin Scott. 



Vice-Presidents — J. D. Baldwin, J. J. Parshall and Wm. McCreery. 

 Secretary — Jacob Ganzhoru. 

 Corresponding Secretary — E. Baur. 

 Treasurer — John Almand. 



Executive Committee—^. H. Scott, J. H. Olough, C. E. Wiard, W. F. 

 Bird. 

 Botanist'— Vvol. Volney F. Spalding. 

 Climatologist — Prof. Mark W. Harrington. 

 Hygienist — Prof. A. B. Prescott. 

 Entomologist and Ornothologist — Prof. J. B. Steere. 



The society keeps up its regular monthly meetings which are usually well 

 attended. Aside from a large variety of local matters incident to the grow- 

 ing of all the fruits cultivated here that were discussed, our time has been 

 mainly occupied during the season with the creation of a fruit factory, 

 towards which the society raised a bonus of $1,000 to the firm who established 

 the business, the firm spending over i5,000 in its erection. The factory 

 evaporates all the fruits in their season; has fixtures for manufacturing jelly, 

 and peach and apple butter. About 20 hands have been employed in the 

 establishment during the working season. 



A good deal of work was done in the direction of transportation. The 

 shipping of fruits from Ann Arbor has grown beyond the scope of the Ex- 

 press Company to carry. Arrangements were made with the Michigan 

 Central Railroad Company to carry peaches to Detroit by freight. A car 

 was loaded every day during the peach season. Smaller shipments were made 

 also by freight going in cars with merchandise. The fruit men have made a 

 saving amounting to several hundreds of dollars in freight during the short 

 period since breaking away from the Express Company. We expect to carry 

 our berries also by freight next season. 



The small fruit crops were good, though cut short some by the protracted 

 drouth; the prices, however, were fair and satisfactory. Our red raspberries, 

 strawberries and blackcap raspberries were sold at but a little over cost. The 

 apple crop was good, but the season proved too warm for this fruit to keep 

 well. The peach crop was large, and fine in quality and size. The late 

 peaches carried exceedingly well by freight in long distances. The Smock 

 was known to keep three weeks in excellent condition. The president and 

 secretary advocate the planting of late peaches largely for this section. The 

 weather being cool at the time these late peaches ripen they carry well 

 by freight and long distances, and this at a time when prices rule higher. 

 The dry and warm season was favorable for the grape, and immense crops, of 



