THE ANNUAL MEETING. 



HELD IX THE VILLAGE OF ALLEGAN, DECEMBER 



2, 3, AXD 4, 1879. 



A RECOED OF DISCUSSIONS A>^D FULL TEXT OF LEADING PAPERS. 



Ill acceptance of an invitation from the Allegan County Pomological 

 Society, the State Society held its annual meeting in the village of Allegan. 

 The convention held its first session on Tuesday evening, December 2d, which 

 was marked by an unusually large attendance from abroad, and a fair repre- 

 sentation from the immediate vicinity. There were 125 or more present at the 

 opening, and the numbers held good throughout the entire meeting. 



Among those present from outside Allegan county were the following: 



Messrs. J. K. Edgell, J. Lannin, J. W. Humphrey, D. B. Williams, T. T. 

 Lyon, and Clias. Monroe of South Haven; 11. C. Sherwood, Watervleit; A. 

 Chapman, Bangor; \Vm. Rowe, P. Johnson, Grand Rapids; A. C. Glidden, J. 

 C. Gould, Paw Paw; AV. K. Emmons, Byron Center; Freeman Rice, Lawton ; 

 S. B. Mann, Adrian; S. M. Pearsoll, Grand Rapids; N. Chilson, Battle 

 Creek; Judge Ramsdell, Traverse City; J. N. Stearns, Kalamazoo; Emmons 

 Buell, Kalamazoo ; AVm. Rowe, W. N. Cook, Grand Rapids ; J. D. Baldwin, 

 Ann Arbor; C. R. Coryell, Jonesville; AV. A. Brown, Stevensville; S. D. 

 Brown, Benton Harbor ; Peter Collar, Adrian ; Geo. Taylor, Kalamazoo ; 

 "W. J. Beal, Lansing; II. P. Ilanford, Bristol, Ind. ; J. C. Ratcliff, Rich- 

 mond, Ind. ; E. M. Cottrell, Greenfield; T. W. Palmer, Detroit; M. B. 

 AVilliams, Kalamazoo ; Robert McNaughton, Jackson ; C. N. Merriman, 

 Pentwater; James Satterlce, Greenville; F. A. GuUey, Lansing; A. G. 

 Gulley, South Haven; Thomas Petty, Geo. Seagrove, Spring Lake. 



The press was represented by R. F. Johnstone of the ^lichigan Farmer, 

 Edwy C. Reid for Allegan Journal, D. R. Waters for Allegan Democrat, E. F. 

 Guild for the Saginawian and Saginaw Herald, Frank Gulley for the Lansing 

 Republican, A. C. Glidden for tlie Post and Tribune, C. W. Garfield for the 

 Free Press, A. Bilz of the Spring Lake Republican, and Mrs. T^ena Woodhull 

 of the Sausratuck Commercial. 



President Lyon called the meeting to order promptly at half past seven 

 o'clock and introduced Mr. Hilton Dewey, President of the Allegan County 

 Pomological Society, who in a few well chosen and modestly spoken remarks 



