348 bTATE rOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



SOUTH TIAVEX POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



OFFICERS. 



■President— W. 11. llurlbut. 



Vice President — X. Phillips. 



Secretary — J. G. Hamsdcll. 



Treasurer — Ilenvy Chatlicld. 



Librarian — F. 11. (Jhosebro. 



Entomologist — L. 11. Bailey, Jr. 



Botanist — A. G. Gulley. 



This Society has held weekly meetings during the entire year, and although 

 the full text of ])roceedings is not given, all the minutes of the more important 

 .meetings arc ai^pended in full. 



POMOLOGY vs. FARMING. 



READ AT THE ANNUAL, MEETING, JANUARY 7TII, IJV C. J. MONFIOE. 



Mr. President and Gentlemen of the SoiUU Haven Po)nolo<jical Society : 



AVlien your committee assigned me this subject I designed to give it attention 

 ;aud examine the facts and figures at my command, ho})ing to ]n"esent to you 

 ■substantial reasons for any views I might advance, but sickness prevented 

 <3onsideratiou of it just before your annual meeting, so I gave it up. 



I consented to present a few thoughts on the subject to-night with the 

 understanding that it was made the special order for tliis evening's discussion, 

 hoping thereby to draw out something of interest and value from others who 

 ■are better posted. 



In no way can we form so correct conclusions of the value of our particular 

 business as by comparison with others, hence it seems to me tliat the time this 

 evening can be profitably spent in the proposed examination of the relative 

 advantages of Pomology and Farming. 



Complaining is catcliing — and in times like these, wlien nearly everybody 

 Iputs on a long face, and repeats with many changes, that "it is hard times," 

 it is not strange that we should have our share, and so get uneasy and waste 

 rt;ime in wondering if there is not something better than our particular business 

 •or locality. 



I know of no better way of settling this point than by looking about us and 

 seeing what others are doing, or at the inducements that other places or 

 business may offer. 



If we may believe the papers we read, or the statements of friends or 

 strangers wilh whom we correspond or converse, we shall not find many 

 inducements to change, for I cannot learn of a single trade, profession, business 

 or place which does not have its full share of conii)laints and drawbacks. The 

 thousands of idle men and hundreds of idle mills tell the unfortunate state of 

 the manufacturing and mining interests; the idle boats and idle seamen, the 

 cutting down of railway em])loyes in number and wages, and the non-jxiymcnt, 

 by a large nunibcr of the roads, of the interest on their bonds, show that all is 

 not smooth sailing in transportation; the daily announcement of numerous 



