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Judge P. L. Page said that he believed apples should be cooked with the 

 skins left on, and that by so doing the full aroma of the apple is retained. 



Prof. B. E. Nichols gave the meeting a Vfery interesting talk on the sanitary 

 effects of eating fruits. He had no doubt but that the apple was best eaten as 

 it conies from the tree. Half of his living, he said, was fruit. In order to 

 secure the best effects from eating fruit one must abstain from eating it 

 between meals. 



Emil Baur said he concurred in the remarks made by Prof. Nichols, but 

 regarding the eating of fruit as given us by the hand of nature, fruits would 

 have to be preserved in various ways in order to supply the people living where 

 fruit cannot be raised. He thought highly of baked apples. 



N. B. Covert asked Prof. Nichols if he knew any one who ate largely of 

 fruits who was addicted to the use of alcoholic drinks, and the reply was ia 

 the negative. 



Dr. Lockwood said that he once was afflicted with dyspepsia, but was now 

 entirely cured by eating largely of fruits. 



J. Austin Scott said that he was in the habit of eating apples a little before 

 meal time and tliat he experienced good results from it. 



In April the committee on fruit canning houses made verbal reports. The 

 project was warmly entertained by the committee and by the meeting, but as 

 the cold winter allowed a poor prospect for a good or full peach crop the mat- 

 ter was thought best to go over for this season. 



The manufacture of jellies was again discussed and other minor topics, also 

 the transportation of fruits. 



J. W. Wing said that the fruit interest was closely allied with farming and 

 that the two great interests together in the near future would force attention 

 among railroad companies, and that those interested would have something to 

 say in making rates of freights. 



In May the subject for discussion was ''injurious insects." 



Dr. A. Gonklin said a mixture of lard or common grease and sulphur 

 applied around the bodies of trees would prevent depredations by the curculio 

 on cherries, plums and peaches. He had tried it with success. 



Against the codling moth Paris green and London purple was recommended, 

 also pasturing sheep and swine in the orchard. 



Some fight the peach borer by digging them out with the knife. J. D. 

 Baldwin put ashes around the trunks at the base and left a square of sod 

 uncultivated as a remedy agaist the borer. Dr. Conkliu uses his grease and 

 sulphur remedy for this insect. 



Emil Baur thought that Dr. Conklin was on the right track with the use of 

 sulphur against insect life and cited some noted German authorities who fight 

 insect life and mildew with sulphur. 



President Dorr uses soft soap, carbolic acid and sulphur as a mixture 

 against the peach borer. He has used London purple for killing potato bugs 

 with success, and thought it cheaper than Paris green. 



Judge Page and others destroyed the currant worm successfully with 

 hellebore. Emil Baur said carbolic soap dissolved in rain water was better 

 than hellebore for killing the currant worm. Slacked lime and ashes were 

 successfully used for this insect, before the hellebore remedy was known, by a 

 member. 



