SECOND ANNUAL MEETING ^ 



SECOND ANNUAL MEETING (1893) 



Held at the State Capitol, Hartford, January 24, 1893. 



PROGRAMME 



Eight Years' Experience with Cold Storage. . . R. A. Moore, Kensington 

 Annual Business and Election of Officers. 



The Connecticut Peach Crop of 1892 : Peculiarities of the Crop 



and Markets J. H. Hale, South Glastonbury 



New Points in the Cultivation and Fertilizing of Orchards . . 



John R. Barnes, Cheshire 

 Fruit Packages : Why Not Produced in Connecticut as Cheaply 



as Elsewhere ? John E. Clough, Tolland 



Fruit Canning for the Home or Market . . . C. E. Steele, New Britain 

 Spraying Calendar, Giving the Monthly Work to be Looked 



after on all Common Fruits 



f Prof. W. A. Taylor, 



Dep't of Agr., Washington, D.C. 

 Prof. W. C. Sturgis, 



Connecticut Exp. Station 

 Prof. S. T. Maynard, 



Massachusetts Exp. Station 

 The Care, Product and Profits of an Apple Orchard from Four- 

 teen to Twenty-four Years of Age .... Edwin Hoyt, New Canaan 



Valuable Novelties in Fruits N. S. Platt, State Pomologist 



Facts for Small Fruit Culturists . Prof. W. A. Taylor, Washington, D. C. 



The President, in his annual address, said that in 1892, 

 Connecticut had the best average fruit crop of any state in 

 the Union ; but that immediate attention must be paid to 

 the peach yellows, which threatened the destruction of our 

 orchards, and also to the ravages of the black knot of the 

 plum. "We must not only destroy these diseases in our 

 orchards, but we must be backed up by stringent laws com- 

 pelling careless growers to cease spreading these great evils." 



STANDING COMMITTEES 



The President recommended the appointment of the fol- 

 lowing standing committees, which suggestion was adopted : 



Committee on Business and Legislation : J. H. Hale, 

 A. C. Sternberg, G. S. Butler. 



Committee on Membership : H. C. C. Miles, F. P. Dun- 

 ham, C. I. Allen, S. B. Wakeman, H. J. Hilliard, O. A. 

 Thrall, G. M. Holt, W. H. Lee. 



