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packing establishments there in Bedford, and they are all full. Dr. 

 Gump is supposed to have six thousand bushels; S. B. Brown has 

 quite a large amount of fruit. His trees are young. There has 

 been a good bit of heavy planting done. I believe one man is going 

 to plant very shortly something like one hundred and fifty acres, and 

 he is going to plant it in apple and peach. He intends planting some, 

 thing like thirty-five hundred peach trees, and expects to get a soil 

 survey by the United States Department of Agriculture, which I 

 think will stimulate more interest in fruit culture in Bedford 

 county than anything else, because our land is well adapted to that 

 purpose. I don't suppose there is anyone there who has more than 

 four or five thousand trees, except what this man is putting in. I 

 suppose there must be twelve or fifteen persons who have from three 

 thousand to thirty -five hundred trees planted, so that in a few years 

 there is going to be quite a number of large orchards. 



I am also inspector and demonstrator for that section. We have 

 some scale down there, and out of eight hundred orchards I ex- 

 amined, I found three hundred and forty that had infested trees. 

 I hope we can have an annual meeting at Bedford next year. We 

 are going to make quite an effort to accomplish it. 



The only thing 1 am sorry for is that the Home Society is not 

 here so as to see what might be possible at the meeting. It did 

 not seem posssible to send any delegate to the Adams County Asso- 

 ciation, but I hope by another year we can get some delegate to at- 

 tend that meeting. 



Thanking you for your kind invitation, I will give way to someone 

 else. 



THP] PRESIDENT.— We have one more report, and I would like 

 to hear it; it is the report of the delegate we sent to the New Jersey 

 Association. I call on D. M. Werts, 



MR WERTS. — Mr. Chairman, and Fellow-members: It was one 

 of my pleasures to be one of two delegates to be sent to the Trenton 

 meeting of the New Jersey Association. I want to say it was a 

 pleasure and benefit personally, and I wish it were possible to trans- 

 mit that benefit to each and every member of this society here. I 

 must say they had a very good meeting. The conditions are differ 

 ent from our State, and especially are the conditions different some- 

 what from our State, on account of the northern part being more 

 interested in fruit, and the southern part being more interested in 

 vegetables, and being interested in reaching the markets, not 

 through transportation alone, but in delivering them personally to 

 the common market in Philadelphia. Of course, it is true that the 

 city of Philadelphia, that belongs to our State, is a market to the 

 New Jersey growers of products, and doubtless much more so than 

 it is to Pennsylvania. 



We observe that they w^ere wide awake, and up to date, and under- 

 stood the manner of fruit growing, as well as trucking. 



There were a number of growers tliei'e who are extensively in the 

 business, and who are able to talk of it not only from a theoretical 

 sense, but with the knowledge that comes from actual experience. 

 It is one thing to know it, and still another to practice it, and still 

 another thing to produce it with success, and I believe in many 



