IlEPOKTS OF LOCAL SOCIETIES. 3 



To whom it may concern: 



Whereas, It is currently reported tliat diseased pcaclies are l)eing shipped 

 from Michigan, to the great detriment of our good name ; Therefore, 



Besolved, Tiuit the Soutli Haven Pomological Society make the following 

 requests, to-wit : 



1st, Tliat every person in this commutiity shall refrain from ship})ing dis- 

 eased fruit ; 



2d, That managers of boat, railroad, express, or other transportation com- 

 panies refuse to receive diseased fruit ; 



3d, That commission men or otlier dealers lumdling our fruit forward to this 

 Society the name of any person shipping diseased fruit ; 



4th, That any person or persons who shall iiereafter shiji diseased fruit, 

 knowingly, shall be prosecuted or otherwise dealt Avith, as the Society may 

 dictate ; 



5th, That commission men and others selling our fruits will report and quote 

 it as South Haven Fruit ; 



6th, That a copy of these requests be sent, as far as practical, to producers 

 or shippers, managers of transportation, commission men, and others inter- 

 ested. 



Resolved, That the South Haven Pomological Society hereby pledges itself 

 to use its best endeavors to carry out the letter and spirit of the above requests, 

 and furtlier, tliat we will, by all legitimate means, insist that nothing but 

 good, sound, healthy fruit, honestly put up and truly represented, shall be 

 shipped from this locality, and we earnestly invite the hearty cooperation of all 

 persons interested. 



Monday Evening, Nov. 19th. 



A very full attendance was present to take part in the discussion of, next to 

 controlling the yellows, the most important question with which we have to 

 deal. The Secretary opened by speaking of the immense crops now being taken 

 from some of the orchards. From where was the supply of nutriment to come 

 to enable the trees to keep bearing these crops? One very important soiirce of 

 manure was to keep stock and convert feed into manure to return to the soil, 

 but many of the places here are so small that this is hardly feasible. But as 

 far as it can be done it should by all means be employed. The sowing of crops 

 to plow in has been highly recommended. We can do this very well when the 

 trees are small, and grow a large anient to turn nnder, but then we do not need 

 it. We may injure the trees very much by stimulating so highly at a time 

 when they usually grow fast enough. But when the trees are large and the 

 ground much shaded we cannot get a large growth, and this is the time the trees 

 are called upon to supply material for the heavy crops. He heard this question 

 discussed one evening by the ablest nurserymen and fruit growers of western 

 New York, and their decision Avas that orchards could not be kept up by green 

 manuring alone. He feared this would be the case here. One source of ob- 

 taining manure had been suggested to him that might ])rove of value, although 

 he had been unable to look the matter up. Had been informed that large quan- 

 tities were taken from Chicago and dumped into the lake and a good price 

 paid to get it disposed of. If we could get that disposed of at a cost of not 

 over a dollar a cord, no doubt it would prove a profitable investment. Could 

 not say as this plan was feasible, but thought it might be worth looking up. 



