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II U T I C U L T U R E 



Kobniury y, ISlh 



WESTERN NEW YORK HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



62nd Annual Meeting. 



After a weeks pusti'iiiiement and 

 subsequent much uneerliilnly because 

 of fuel cumplioutk'iis the three days' 

 so.isiuns began Jiiii. :iO nnd ended late 

 hVlday p. in.. Kel> 1 It was feared 

 that the.-io cin n wiMild mute- 



riiilly iiflfecl iii' ■■ : istratlon, 



and while this m.iy li.iv^' nceurred In 

 some slight degree, the fact neverthe- 

 less remains that the sessions of sec- 

 ond and third days were among the 

 most enthusiastic and successful on 

 record. llesidcs the papers dealing 

 with practical problems of the fruit 

 grower, followed by most instructive 

 discussions, the question of food pro- 

 duction and conservation, &c., figured 

 prominently. In the absence of Hon. 

 John Mitchell, chairman of the New 

 York State Food Commission, Dr. W. 

 H. Jordan, director of the State Expt. 

 Station, spoke of "Mr. Hoover and 

 Price Fixing." which was an almost 

 unqualified endorsement and defense 

 of the plans adopted. G. Harold Powell, 

 who is In charge of some important 

 work with Mr. Herbert Hoover, the 

 Food Administrator, was unable to 

 leave his duties in Washington to fill 

 his place on the program and sent in 

 his stead Mr. H. J. Eustace, who has 

 been closely associated with him. 



Mr. Eustace told of the functions 

 of the Food Adminlstrations's work. 

 He said that In Western New York, 

 sometime} called the garden spot 

 of the United States, that there 

 are abundant stocks of fruits and 

 vegetables of the various kinds that 

 should be used freely and extensively 

 to cut down as far as health will per- 

 mit the wheat flour, meats, fats and 

 sugars. 



He further explained the attitude of 

 the Food Administration in the matter 

 of producing crops for this cominK 

 year and made it clear that the Food 

 Administration does not encourage 

 farmers to try and grow crops that 

 they are not familiar with but the 

 motto is to do better what they are 

 able to do the best on their farms and 

 it would be an unpatriotic act to 

 neglect In any way the fine orchards 

 that it has taken a generation to de- 

 velop In western New York. 



The rules of the Food Administra- 

 tion as regards the handling of fruits 

 and vegetables was also discussed In 

 detail. 



A very interesting and Instructive 

 address was made by Mr. John B. Mor- 

 man. from the Federal Farm Loan Hii- 

 reau at Washington, discussing the 

 subject of farm mortgage loans in gen- 

 eral and the relation of the new Fed- 

 eral Farm Loan System to banking 

 and mortgage interests. Mr. H. W. 

 Collingwood spoke on "Food Conserva- 

 tion and the Farmer," an intensely in-- 

 teresting presentation, which held a 

 very large audience for fully an hour. 



A resolution was unanimously adopt- 

 ed criticising the personnel of the new 

 Farm and Markets Council. The lat- 

 ter, it was claimed, was conceived as 

 a means of lifting the state depart- 

 ment of agriculture out of politics, and 

 the support of the various agricultural 

 organizations has been solicited and 

 given, but in the appointment of the 



Ciiuncil no representative of agricul- 

 tural InlerestH was selected. The re- 

 fusal to confirm the appolntmentH, in- 

 cluding the secretary to the Council, 

 was asked nt the hands of Senators. 



Taken as a whole, under the able 

 presidency of Mr. Selh J. T. Hush, the 

 business of the meeting was couducti'd 

 wilhuul loss of time and wllli a de- 

 gree of "pep" which became Infectious 

 among the nearly one thousand fruit 

 growers In attendance. 



A committee was appointed to meet 

 with a like committee from the New- 

 York State Fruit Growers' Association 

 to prepare constitution and by-laws of 

 the New York State llorllcultural So- 



No Exemption for 

 Florists 



The following communications 

 to Wm. F, Gude, S. A. F. Repre- 

 sentative at Washington, are of 

 especial interest and importance 

 to the florist trade: 



Mr. William F. Gude: 



Dear Sir: — The writer has tak- 

 en up with Mr. Noyes the ques- 

 tion of allowing florists to open 

 Mondays and he has ruled that 

 there can be no exception in their 

 case as to being open on the Mon- 

 days prescribed in the Fuel Ad- 

 ministration order of January 17. 



Yours very truly, 

 U. S. FUEL ADMINISTRATION, 

 By C. F. Austin. 



January 31, 1918. 



Mr. William F. Gude: 



Dear Sir: — Dr. Garfield believes 

 that it will not cause serious in- 

 convenience and will contribute 

 to the general patriotic observ- 

 ance of the Monday closing. If 

 the florists are not exempted from 

 the order of January 17th. Busi- 

 nesses more essential to the life 

 of the community than flowers for 

 funerals have been refused ex- 

 emption in the present emergency. 



Yours very truly. 

 U. S. FUEL ADMINISTRATION. 

 By P. B. Noyes, 



Director of Conservation. 



February 2. 1918. 







ciety, which will be the title of the 

 merger which 4tas taken place. 



John Hall, secretary-treasurer, was 

 re-elected and entered on his L'tith 

 year of service in that capacity. 



Report of Secretary-Treasurer John 

 Hall. 

 During the past year your otticers 

 have dealt with problems of interest, 

 not only to members of this Society, 

 but to every farmer and fruit-grower 

 in this great Empire State. The last 

 problem which occupied much of their 

 very serious attention during the past 

 two weeks was in the effort to secure 

 permission to hold this sixty-third an- 

 nual meeting, a problem which arose 

 out of the scarcity of fuel conditions 

 in the city. 



Ueferunce has already been made by 

 the president <if thi' Society In his ad 

 dress and by Mr. Wilson In llio report 

 (if the Committee on i^egislation, to 

 matters alTertliig the Industry In 

 which you gentlemen are engaged, and 

 there will not be required of mo any 

 repetition of such. 



As has already been referred to by 

 President Hush, this Society has now 

 reached a period in Its history which 

 marks the "parting of the ways." The 

 two organizations. New York State 

 Krult (Jrowers' Association and the 

 Western New York Horticultural So- 

 ciety, daughter and mother, are to 

 merge Into one organization, to be 

 known by a name of larger meaning, 

 -the New York State Horticultural 

 Society. 



For twenty-eight and more years of 

 the sixty-three years of this Society's 

 remarkable history, It has been my 

 privilege and pleasure to occupy the 

 position of its secretary-treasurer. I 

 shall not at this time enter Into any 

 review of those years because in the 

 published Annual Proceedings of the 

 Society for the year 1914 may be found 

 a sketch of my quarter of a century 

 service. I little thought that he with 

 whom I worked so pleasantly during 

 those years would be the first to be 

 called away by death. This Society 

 has not yet realized, and I doubt if It 

 ever will, the extent of the debt It 

 owes to the late William Crawford 

 Barry- 



When, a year ago, I was suddenly 

 taken from my post of duty at the 

 annual meeting, many of my friends 

 thought that I should soon follow him. 

 To those members who so kindly en- 

 quired concerning my welfare and who 

 sent kindly messages I now express 

 my hearty thanks. 



I mention here an Interesting Item 

 I'nder the will of the late Mr. Patrick 

 I'arry, for many years president of 

 this Society, and who died in 1891, a 

 legacy of one thousand dollars wae 

 left to the Society, with the provision 

 that the interest earned by it should 

 be used for the promotion of the ob- 

 jects of the Society. Our late prest 

 'lent. Mr. W. C. Barry, was the only 

 .-surviving trustee under that will, and 

 his heirs notified your secretary that 

 the legacy should be turned over to 

 the Society through the proper legal 

 neasures. 



On Jahuary 21st (this month) 

 an order was made by the Surrogate 

 Court of Monroe County, appointing 

 .Mr. n. G. Bennett as trustee of said 

 fund. 



The original legacy, less transfer tax 

 thereon, was 19.50.00, and on December 

 1st, 1917, the total amount on deposit 

 in the Rochester Trust & Safe Deposit 

 Co., at four per cent interest, aggre- 

 gated $2,495.39. In other words, the 

 interest earned during the years has 

 amounted to $l,54,i.:{9. and this money 

 will pass into the treasury of our Per- 

 manent Fund for the work of the So- 

 ciety. 



Summary of Secretary-Treasurer's 

 financial statement: 

 1917 — Receipts, including bal- 

 ance from last year. $2,393.26 

 Disbursements 1,811.37 



Balance in hank Jan. 1, 1918. $581.89 



