WASaTENAW COUISTTY POMOLOGIOAL 



SOCIETY. 



OFFICERS FOR 1889. 



President — J. D. Baldwin. 



[ J. J. Parshall. 

 Vice Presidents — -i Wm. McKreery. 



[ J. D. Allison. 

 Secretary — Jacob Ganzhorn. 

 Corresponding Secretary — Emil Baur. 

 Treasurer — John Almand. 



r W. F. Bird. 



Executive Committee — -{ j' Ti V \\ 



y B. C. Nichols. 



Climatologist — Prof. W. M. Harrington. 

 Ortiithologist and Bntomologist — Prof. J. B. Steere. 

 Hygienist — Dr. A. B. Prescot. 



Botanist — Prof. Volney Spauldiug of Michigan University. 



The society kept up regular monthly meetings, besides a number of extra- 

 sessions. During the winter we were favored with an interesting paper on 

 the effects of forests on the climate and rainfall, whether or not effected by 

 forests, etc. The paper Tfas ordered to be sent to Secretary Garfield for pub- 

 lication, with report of the forestry convention held at Grand Rapids last 

 "winter. Prof. V. Spaulding interested the society with a paper on vegetable 

 pathology. Mr. Erwin Smith of the department of agriculture, Washing- 

 ton, gave his researches on peach yellows, its early history, where first found, 

 its spread and devastations it caused up to the present time, its appearances 

 in the different parts of the country, etc. Mr. Smith illustrated his subject 

 with photographic views of diseased peach trees, and the different stages of 

 yellows. We have no yellows in our county as yet, and we do not look for 

 any to come. 



The spring and summer meetings were largely devoted to transportation of 

 fruits by freight, including berries, shipping by express having proved in- 

 adequate, too expensive, and further made undesirable by a lack of proper 

 handling in loading on board of cars. So far our shipments by freight have 

 been confined from Ann Arbor to Detroit. A fruit car was fitted up for this 

 special purpose, with shelving. The car was ready for loading during all the 

 day, and tuch a privilege is highly appreciated by the fruit men. 



We have a standing committee on transportation to attend to anything 

 coming up incident to this business. The society has also spent much time= 



