238 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



withheld, too great caution cannot be exercised. He praised highly, in this 

 •connection, the conservative course of this society and its president, Mr. Lyon, 

 who has in his strict honesty in this regard done much to merit the testimonial 

 of regard which was given him Wednesday evening. 



Mr. Lyon referred to the many conditions under which new fruits may be 

 tested. His own rule has been to give each kind only fair average culture, and 

 then in reference to it state only the results of that culture. With such a 

 course generally followed there would be vastly less loss resultant from invest- 

 ment in new varieties. 



Mr. Willard made a point here in favor of the Hatch bill, which would enable 

 ?us to have new fruits well tested, at the same time under many different con- 

 ditions. 



W. K. Gibson strongly inveighed against the indiscriminate giving of testi- 

 monials to new fruits. There are certain men whose names constantly appear 

 .as sponsors for new kinds, which are enough of themselves to cast suspicion 

 upon each case. 



The following letter from Prof. E. Baur of Ann Arbor, was read by the 

 secretary under the head of 



FRUIT JUICES AND SYRUPS. 



Ann Aeboe, Nov. 29, 1886. 



Me. Garfield: Dear Sie — You have kindly intrusted me with the topic, 

 "Fruit juices and syrups. How can we build up an industry in their manu- 

 facture?" We must necessarily meet with great losses if we neglect this part 

 •of our profession as growers of fruit. No work in pomology in the German 

 language is considered complete without the doctrine of the uses of fruits. 

 Fruitgrowers have most every year a surplus of all kinds of fruit, which can- 

 not be marketed. With proper apparatus such fruit can be prepared for the 

 market in this as well as in foreign countries. We Germans are notorious for 

 our saving propensity. We do not like to see anything spoiled or lost. In our 

 own orchard we had this year some 20 bushels of Bartlett and Flemish Beauty 

 pears which were small and unsalable. They were allowed to ripen in the 

 fruit house in 4-quart baskets. When turning yellow we ground and pressed 

 them in a small cider mill and evaporated or boiled the juice in our Kyder's 

 evaporating tank until we had a syrup without the addition of sugar or any 

 spices. We use it in our family on bread, corn bread, cakes and pies. During 

 the raspberry season we have generally on Monday a lot of soft berries from 

 which we prepare a syrup adding considerable granulated sugar. 



A German farmer, George Aprill, who frequently read the publications of 

 ■our monthly Washtenaw pomological meetings, established, at his home in 

 Scio, seven miles from Ann Arbor, a factory for the manufacture of jellies. 

 In 10 hours 150 gallons of the brightest jelly are made on his machine. To 

 make a good article without adding sugar 2^ bush, of apples, half sweet and 

 half sour, are required. I took pears, quinces, and Bambo apples there and 

 received a very fine article. People came from a circuit of 18 miles and I 

 have no doubt they were benefited. Instead of cider which is generally made 

 from surplus apples, they took home with them an article which their wives 

 aud children could enjoy. Dissolved in water these fruit juices offer to the 

 working men, to women and children a drink which Hebe's nectar, offered to 

 the Olympians, could hardly surpass. 



