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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 8, 
WESTERN NEW YORK HORTICULTURAL 
SOCIETY. 
Part I. 
President Barry opened the fifty-third 
annual meeting with a ghort address, in 
which he questioned ;f tue society was ac¬ 
complishing all it could, and hoped no one 
could go away from one of their meetings 
and say he had not been benefited. lie 
is pleased to see the interest that has been 
recently shown in dwarf trees, and believes 
(hey have been overlooked, and that they 
have an important place in our future 
orchards. He urged the importance of per¬ 
manent improvements to country homes by 
ornamental as well as other planting, and 
said the cost was so little that no one could 
have that as an excuse, and it would add 
to the value of the place as well as prove 
a source of comfort and an uplifting in¬ 
fluence to the owner. The reports of the 
various committees were then heard. Prof. 
Stewart, in reporting for the committee on 
botany and plant diseases, said there had 
been no remarkable outbreak of any new or 
old plant diseases. The Ohio Station is 
studying the disease of grapevines, the 
action of which is similar to what is known 
in Chautauqua County as the side-arm dis¬ 
ease. Raspberry cane blight, it seems, can 
be transmitted to healthy canes by insects 
through the blossoms. Bulletin No. 22G of 
the Geneva Station treats of this cane 
blight. Trees of the stone fruits do not 
seem to suffer from gumming where salt 
is abundant in the soil, and experiments 
now being carried on are promising good 
results from an application of salt to the 
soil for this trouble. Crown-gall of the 
apple is different from that of the rasp¬ 
berry- - and peach, and the latter is not 
communicable to the apple. Apple crown- 
gall Is non-communicable to healthy apple 
trees, and it is believed that apple trees 
having crown gall in the nursery row, 
when planted out and given good care, do 
as well as trees that are free from gall, 
and several experiments seem to prove this 
to be so. Nevertheless most growers will 
continue to demand clean stock. The Cur¬ 
rant rust failed to appear the past season, 
bnt a bush attacked by a fungus disease 
was on exhibition. This disease had formed 
a large fungus growth around the 
bush just above the ground, and had 
sent its feeding hairs down into the roots. 
Anyone finding this disease is requested 
to communicate with the Geneva Station. 
Dr. Jordan gave an address on “Twenty- 
five Years of Experiment Station Work',” 
in which he brought out the following: Ex¬ 
periment stations in this country are a 
little over 80 years old. and the idea came 
from Germany, being brought here by stu¬ 
dents who went to that country to finish 
their education. The first station was estab¬ 
lished in Connecticut in 1875. The New 
York Station was the sixth established, and 
dates from March 1, 1882. The Western 
New York Horticultural Society was largely 
instrumental in the establishment of this 
Station, and has always been among the 
foremost in its support. The late F. Barry 
and J. S. Woodward were members of the 
first board of control. The ideas as to 
what an experiment station was for and 
what work it should carry on were rather 
vague in those early days, and many dif¬ 
ferences of opinion prevailed. All minds 
have not yet harmoniously blended in a 
perfect interpretation of the stations’ 
work, bnt Dr. Jordan thinks their efforts 
should be directed to acquiring new knowl¬ 
edge and the more perfect application of the 
knowledge already gained. There are now 60 
stations in the United States. The Geneva 
Station started with a staff of five mem¬ 
bers, which has now increased to 35, but 
to broaden the work and to keep up with 
the advancement of the times a still larger 
staff is needed. lie gave a brief synopsis 
of the work done by the Station since its 
establishment, and some figures showing 
where in several cases the people have 
gained much financially by carrying out the 
knowledge gained from the Station. 
Prof. Hedrick then read a paper on “Till¬ 
age vs. the Sod Mulch.” in which tillage 
had decidedly the best of it. All the points 
in this paper seemed to prove that with 
rare exceptions tillage was the only plan 
for the progressive orchardist to follow if 
he would reap the largest returns. Most 
of those who adopt the sod mulch are look¬ 
ing for an easy way to care for their or¬ 
chards, and not only often forget the mulch, 
but will also take the easy way in other 
orchard practices. Mr. Powell said that if 
the tillage advice alone was taken up 
throughout the State the gain to the grow¬ 
ers would be much more than the appro¬ 
priations needed by the Geneva Station. 
M. C. Burritt, of the graduating class 
at Cornell, read a paper on “Co-operation 
in the Packing and Marketing of Orchard 
Fruits.” He emphasized the advantages a 
co-operative organization had over the indi¬ 
vidual in grading and packing fruit, trans¬ 
portation and marketing, attaining a better 
relation between producer and consumer, 
buying supplies and getting much better 
prices. Another advantage is that mem¬ 
bers of these associations agree to follow 
advanced practices in growing as well as 
marketing. The Forest Association of On¬ 
tario, Canada, has 70 members, all of which 
agree to prune thoroughly and spray three 
times. The Hood River growers through 
co-operation have raised the price of apples 
from 85 cents per box to ,$2.60. The 
incorporated associations have proved 
superior to the unincorporated mutual 
associations. This was a very well-pre¬ 
pared paper, and at its close Prof. Craig 
said he thought it a good time to answer 
question No. 55: “Why should a fruit 
grower or a farmer send bis boys to the 
College of Agriculture at Cornell?” He said 
the paper just given by a student of that 
college answered the question much better 
than be could. 
President Barry ready a letter from Prof. 
Craig, which in substance was that the 
fruit regions of the West are being con¬ 
stantly and thoroughly exploited in the 
most aggressive way. and as this, together 
with the splendid prices secured in the 
West through co-operation, are drawing 
many of the best men and much capital 
from the East, as well as usurping our 
home fruit in our own markets, it is high 
lime that eastern growers should start a 
like movement to make known the possi¬ 
bilities of fruit production in the East, and 
this society could well afford to support 
a bureau of publicity. A motion was car¬ 
ried empowering the president to appoint a 
committee on publicity and provide funds 
for carrying on its work. «. R. s. 
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