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year, and the result of their work is seen on every hand. They are 

 the best organized and combat their diseases and their insects just as 

 an army does its foes. The whole fruit business is reduced to a system 

 and no other country has such a uniformity in its fruits as does Cali- 

 fornia. It has double the amount of pine forests of any State in the 

 Union and yet the secretary of forestry receives $2,400 per year for 

 Ms services. 



Alabama Horticultural Society received $4,000 per year and the 

 secretary $1,200. 



Connecticut sustains an experimental station. 



Illinois gets $2,000 per year and all the other perequisites. 



Kansas receives $3,000 and her secretary $1,200 and seven thous- 

 and reports published. 



Michigan sends out six thousand reports, has $3,000, and $1,000^ 

 for the exhibition of fruits yearly. 



Minnesota gets $1,V50. The Horticultural farm $2,000 and Peter 

 Gideon, $1,000 per year. 



New Jersey has $5,000 and her fine peach orchards show the re- 

 sult. 



New York has a $20,000 experimental station and it shows, not 

 only in the State, but far outside. 



We have as many advantages as any of them and if we can get a- 

 liberal appropriation we can make our State one of the wonders of the 

 west in a few years. ■* 



The Illinois State Society meets the week following our meeting* 

 and it will be well for our society to send a delegate. Also the Iowa 

 State Society meets the same time and we should also be represented 

 there. These interchanges are very pleasant and valuable to us all. 

 Matters can be learned wherever we go, and a report from each of 

 these State meetings will be of value to the society. We need a more 

 intimate acquaintance and closer connection with our other State 

 societies. 



REVISION OF THE APPLE LIST. 



I would suggest that this revision as to time of ripening, which 

 was begun a few years ago be taken up by a committee and the dates 

 be given of their ripening. I find that confusion occurs in the award 

 of premiums, by some classing an apple among the fall, and another 

 classing the same among the winter apples. A committee of three to 

 take this matter in hand would give dates and we could then have a 

 western standard for our fruits. 



