2?4 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



a time, and removed from the orchard, and all the time, both in cutting and 

 removing, the greatest care should be used not to allow any contact with 

 healthy trees. It is just as necessary to remove all the roots possible, as tops, 

 and this is required by the new law. 



He said the disease in the vicinity of South Haven was evidently on the 

 decrease, not one-tenth as many new cases this year as last, and could see no 

 reason why we may not continue to successfully and profitably raise the peach. 



August 30th another session was held at which Mr. Newnham concluded his 

 address on *' Insects injurious to the Apple,'' quoting largely from Prof. Cook 

 and other eminent entomologists. Of course the session could not close without 

 a discussion of the yellows, but no new facts were brought out. At the conclusion 

 of this meeting it was determined to adjourn till the last Saturday in October, 

 which meeting was still further adjourned till November, the annual meeting 

 for the election of officers. The result of this election is already given. 



As will be seen we have held monthly meetings. The interest has not 

 flagged and the belief in the efficiency of local pomological societies has been 

 greatly strengthened, and we commence the new year with increased member- 

 ship and increased faith in the great State of Michigan as distinctively the 

 Pomological State of the Union, and our locality as the most favored of this 

 peculiarly favored State. 



BYRON MAKKHAM, Secvetary. 



