EIGHTEENTH AX N UAL MEETING. 133: 



W\i. Fakxsworth : 1 liave four or five tenement houses 

 and the people who occupy these houses all keep poultry, 

 and we keep some. I have never seen any evil results ; on 

 the contrary, have always considered it heneficial to keep 

 chickens and allow them to run in the orchards. In the 

 young orchards we sow buckwheat as a cover crop and allow 

 the chickens to run in it. 



Member: \Miat brand of arsenate of lead do you use? 



Mr. Farnsworth : I don't want to advertise any spec- 

 ial brand. There are a number of good standard brands. 



Member: What do you think of the Schafifer raspberry 

 for commercial purposes? 



Mr. Farnsworth : It is all right for anyone who has 

 a home market; but it won't ship; it is, however, the best 

 berry for canning. The question of arsenate of lead brings 

 up another matter. For the last three years in our State, 

 horticulturists have clubbed together and purchased their 

 spraying supplies and have saved a great deal. We have 

 secured the best brands, for no firm is going to send anything- 

 but a first-class article to a horticultural society, as they 

 might lose business by doing otherwise. I order direct from 

 the factories and the shipments are made direct to the users. 



At the close of Mr. Farnsworth's very practical and 

 instructive address and the discussion following it, President 

 Gold called attention to the matter of membership and empha- 

 sized the importance of every fruit grower present identify- 

 ing himself with the work of the Society. Mr. Gold said: 

 "For your own benefit, as well as that of the Society, you 

 should become members and pay the reciuired fee." 



Mr. J. H. Hale: In relation to the membership fee. 

 We have glorious meetings and hear things that are of real 

 and practical benefit to us in our work ; worth money to us. 

 When I attended the Western New York Horticultural Soci- 

 ety's meeting I noticed they took the fee at the door. In other 

 words, you didn't get in unless you paid, and there were 

 over 1,500 people who paid a dollar apiece to get into those 



