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Mr. W. A. Taylor: There was a very large crop of Bartlett pears in the 

 east this year, and there was no money in it; but neither was there any in 

 the peach crop. 



Mr. W W. Tracy of Detroit: I know of old pear orchards in Pennsyl- 

 vania in which the soil is very liberally manured and the trees cultivated, 

 yet they are comparatively free from blight. I see pear orchards in New 

 York, thaf have been in grass for years, yet they also are nearly free from 

 blight. Disaster comes from change of treatment. Keep it uniform. 

 Cut out the blighted limbs each week, or oftener if they appear. I used 

 to carry a bottle of crude carbolic acid into which I dipped my knife-blade 

 after each cutting. 



Mr. A. A. Crozier said he used to believe the only place for a pear 

 orchard was sod, but now believes in cultivation, and otherwise in the 

 views expressed by Mr. Tracy. 



ANNUAL ELECTION. 



To conduct the annual election, Messrs. Stearns and Gulley were 

 appointed tellers and officers chosen as follows, a re-election in each case: 

 President— T. T. Lyon. 

 Secretary — Edwy C. Keid. 

 Treasurer — S. M. Pearsall. 

 Members of Executive Board— C. A. Sessions. C. W. Garfield. 



Wednesday Afternoon Session. 



At the opening of the session a letter was read from the publishers of 

 the Farmers' Review, Chicago, suggesting that an understanding be estab- 

 lished between the several state horticultural societies, by which then- 

 annual meetings shall be held on successive dates. Under the present 

 conditions, several of them meet at the same time. The societies of 

 Kentucky, Missouri, Indiana, and northern Illinois, besides Michigan, are 

 in annual session this week. This makes it impossible for papers like the 

 Review to make reports of them all, as they would like to do, without 

 incurring too great expense. 



Mr. W. A. Taylor said that the agricultural department finds difficul- 

 ties of the same kind. The department would like to send a representa- 

 tive to each of such meetings, but the simultaneous occurrence of so many 

 of them prevents this, both because there are not enough suitable men i*. 



