REPORTS OF AUXILIARY SOCIETIES. 379 



GENESEE COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The following is the fifth annual report made to the State Horticultural 

 Society through its branch in Genesee county, by Mr. A. L. Aid rich, editor of 

 the Flint Globe: 



The year of 188G has been rather a favorable one on the whole for the horti- 

 culturist, although the report shows, upon comparison with that of last year, 

 that the yield of shipping apples has been somewhat less than that year. On 

 the other hand the yield of grapes, strawberries, cherries, and especially of 

 plums, has been much larger than that of 1885, that of plums being the largest 

 iu many years. It has been a year of low prices for all kinds of farm products, 

 and although the money value of the horticultural products has been small as 

 compared with some former years, it has held its own well with other products 

 of the soil. 



APPLES. 



The points from which apples have been shipped this season are Flint, Fen- 

 ton, Linden, Gaines, Clio, Mt. Morris, Davison Station and Grand Blanc. 

 There were apples shipped from Swartz Creek, but they were handled by Flint 

 buyers, and appear in the reports from that city. 



The shipments from Grand Blanc were much larger than appear in the 

 table below, but they too were handled by Flint buyers, and are reported in the 

 Flint shipments. 



The following are the amounts reported as packed and shipped from the 

 various places, in bushels : 



Flint '. 47,000 



Fenton. -- --- 12,750 



Linden.... 7,550 



Gaines -... ---- 2,400 



Clio.... ---. 4,700 



Mt. Morris - -- -- - 5,800 



Davison -- 4,700 



Grand Blanc -- 1,200 



Total .--- 80,100 



In 1885 the shipments from the county were 130,040 bushels. Iu 1884, 05,- 

 175; in 1883, 98,200; in 1882, 52,175 bushels. So it will be seen that the 

 average has not been very discouraging. 



It is fair to assume, from all the information I can get, that there are one- 

 fourth as many marketable apples iu the hands of producers to-day as have 

 already been shipped. If this is true, the total yield of shipping apples in the 

 county would be about 107,025 bushels. 



