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OECHAED MEETING NOTES 



BY THE SECRETARY 



WE had a call last week from Mr. 

 McNeill and Mr. Carey on their 

 return from their series of 

 orchard meetings. They report excellent 

 meetings, and in spite of the pressure 

 of work at this busy season from thirty 

 to one hundred eager fruit growers attended 

 each meeting. " The most pleasing feature 

 oT these meetings," said Mr. McNeill, "was 

 the intelligent interest taken in the discus- 

 sions back and forward of each disease, defect 

 and insect that might be found in passing 

 through the orchard. There the principles 

 of orchard cultivation would be taken up and 

 specific instructions given in the practice of 



pruning. This kind of instruction has 

 double the value of that given at indoor 

 meetings in that one cannot only hear but 

 actually see the things done." 



Mr. Carey took up the apple question from 

 the packer's and shipper's standpoint, ex- 

 plaining how the fruit could best be handled 

 from the time it was taken from the tree un- 

 til it was packed and labelled or left the 

 grower's farm. He pointed out that the 

 salableness of fruit is effected by being pick- 

 ed too early or too late in the season. It is 

 better, said Mr. Carey, to harvest the fruit in 

 two or at most three weeks while it is in the 

 pink of condition, than to have the picking 



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