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should be continued, our reply would be most emphatically in the negative. 

 Protect your woodlands as you would your garden. 



Mr. Parks having remarked that farmers should grow better apples, 

 Mr. W. H. Overholt of Eden said they first must learn how and next 

 must practice it, but they do neither. Most of them have not yet learned 

 about spraying. He grows berries and finds it pays to grow only the best. 

 He got, last season, ten cents net per quart for raspberries to goto Chicago — 

 they were extra fine and were wanted at the Palmer House. .He has two 

 evaporators and two kilns, the latter used for drying cores and small 

 apples. He puts nothing through the evaporators but was good cooking 

 fruit before it entered — no Phoenix nor " Pumpkin Sweets " — and so the 

 entire product went as a fancy grade. By spraying he had 

 secured fine pears. 



THE WHORTLEBERRY. 



An inquiry was made if any one knew of successful efforts to grow 

 whortleberries on upland. 



The secretary said H. J. Ray of Watervliet has so grown them for 

 several years. 



Mr. Parks knew of whortleberries growing on dry ground, wild, in New 

 York. 



Mr. Allis : Are there not many varieties of whortleberry? I think I 

 can find in Lenawee county fifteen different kinds. 



Prof. L. R. Taft : There are a dozen or so species and many variations, 

 perhaps 100 in all, there being great difference in height of the bushes 

 and size and color of the fruit. 



HORTICULTURE AND THE WEATHER SERVICE. 



Sergt. Norman B. Conger, director in charge of the Michigan weather 

 service, was to have talked about " Horticulture and the weather service," 

 but was detained by the death of a relative, and Prof. L. R. Taft served 

 in his stead. He said: The subject is one that is wide in its scope and 

 one that can not be fully treated in all of its branches in the present paper 

 and it is the intention only to call attention to the most important parts, 

 which may suggest new and valuable thoughts to those who have made a 

 special study of horticulture in this state. 



Michigan has a climate which is peculiarly her own, and no other state 

 can produce the climate changes which occur during the year in the dif- 

 ferent portions of the state. 



In this state we can find almost any kind of climate that is best adapted 

 to our special purposes, and it is for the weather service to find the dif- 

 ferent changes in climate and place them before the public for their use 

 and information. 



