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Mr. Woodard: I fasten an old clothes-wringer rubber to the end of a 

 pole, place the rubber against the tree and strike the other end of the pole. 

 I use sulky wheels for the machine, but carry the sheet only ten inches 

 from the ground. 



DISCUSSION OF WORLD'S PAIR MATTERS. 



Prest. Lyon: When tlie state commission's committee on pomology, 

 arboriculture, and viti6ulture was first constituted it was composed of eight 

 persons, but before a meeting had been called it was increased. It was 

 then divided into subcommittees and more members added, each sub- 

 committee charged with certain subjects and myself made ex-officio chair- 

 man of each. Messrs. Weston and Stevens were present at the organiza- 

 tion and notified the committee that $4:,000 would be devoted to its objects, 

 but the committee was instructed to make no expense that could not be 

 paid outside of this sum. Several months later Mr. Weston wrote me, 

 intimating that some of it might be used for present needs; and so I wrote 

 Mr. Edmiston and others that bills for boxes for trees would be paid. This 

 reached Mr. Belden, who wrote Mr. Weston questioning this expenditure. 

 Both these gentlemen wrote me, saying I had gone too far. Later, Mr. 

 Weston wrote me that he was ready to enter my order for fruit cans. I 

 answered that I would make such an order if it would be backed by the 

 commission. I heard no more for some time, and then from secretary 

 Stevens, sayin^j the order would be backed. Hence I supposed nothing 

 more would be expended, even if this was. The next event was a call from 

 Mr. J. J. Woodman of Paw Paw, who said he had been given charge and 

 was ready to make expenditure for canning. I thought this discourteous, 

 though having utmost confldence in Mr. Woodman. I have therefore felt 

 there was nothing more for me to do, and but for the advice of friends I 

 would have resigned. The subcommittees have done nothing, because they 

 had the same understanding that no funds could be used; that the $4,000 

 must be held to pay costs of transportation and care in Chicago. I have 

 recently been in Chicago to help make the rules and premium lists for the 

 horticultural display, and was promised that a copy of them would be here 

 today, but Mr. Samuels has not sent it. I query if it is worth the while 

 of this society, since it has been ignored, to make an exhibit of next year's 

 fruit; yet I asked Mr. Samuels about it, if space could be found and entry 

 made, and was assured it could be. It might not be good policy to 

 antagonize the commission, but the complaints against it are by no means 

 confined to horticulturists. We yt^ere provided insufficient means, and even 

 that was not available when it should have been. 

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