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REPORT OF THE SECllETART OF THE 



SECOND TEISr YEARS. 



Mr. Gidlej — I am happy to have Mr. Soule give figures that 

 deny the statements of the article in the Detroit Tribune, to 

 the effect that peach growing does not pay. "We know it does, 

 and had I the time I could demonstrate that our best peach 

 lands, set to the right kinds, and fairly cultivated, will make 

 more money from every ten acres than any one hundred acre 

 farm pays in the State. There is, without question, more 

 money in growing peaches, on suitable soil, in our "peach 

 belt," than in any other legitimate business open to the public. 



It being stated that it was the desire of the citizens that the 

 Society join in an excursion up Spring Lake, the meeting was 

 adjourned until evening. 



Two tugs were found to have been chartered for the occasion, 

 and a pleasant trip made up to Fruitport, calling on the way 

 at the vineyard of Mr. Hunter Savidge, and at the residence of 

 Mr. J. B. Soule; each visit adding considerably to the ton- 

 nage of the crafts, in luscious Delaware and Concord Orapes. 



A short call at the Pomona House, and back to the 



EVENING SESSION. 



Mr. Lyman Ilall — Mr. Gidley, what would be your list of 

 peaches for six hundred, if a person wanted no Crawfords? 



