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lerican Agriculturist, January 27,1923 
Fruit Men’s 
“Annual” Best Yet 
Horticultural Society Stages Fine Exhibit and Meeting at Rochester 
I F you like fruit and are 
interested in the many 
problems of the fruit pro¬ 
ducer you would have en¬ 
joyed the annual meeting of 
the State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety at Rochester, January 
12 and 13. The exhibits were 
good; the attendance was 
large and the program fair. 
The program could have been , 
much improved had there 
been two or three talks which 
were not quite so technical 
and more of an inspirational 
nature. In attending this 
meeting one could not help but 
be 'Particularly impressed 
with the great interest that 
producers are taking in the 
technical problems of their 
business. But in these dis¬ 
couraging times men need in 
addition to technical informa¬ 
tion some encouragement and 
inspiration that will give 
them hope to fight the many 
disheartening farm problems. 
The fruit and machinery Eastern apples 
exhibits were especially good. 
Let Eastern growers market 
their fruit as well as they 
grow it and they will not have much cause for 
discouragement in results from their business. 
No one can attend an exhibit of New York 
State apples without a feeling of pride in the 
natural qualifications for fruit growing in 
this section and the ability of Eastern fruit 
growers to make the most of those qualifica¬ 
tions in growing the finest apples in the 
world. 
The hall where the exhibits were held at 
Exposition Park was filled with an impres¬ 
sive array of machinery and supplies needed 
in orchard culture. The amount and variety 
of equipment necessary in the business shows 
what a great technical trade modern fruit 
growing has become. Farmers of former gen¬ 
erations set out their apple trees and picked 
the fruit. Sometime when the spirit moved 
them they did a little “trimmin,” but for the 
most part their orchards “just grew” and 
they paid little attention to them. The change 
in methods that has been necessary to pro- 
lead the world in quality. The fruitgrower’s job is 
consumer of this fact 
duce modern fruits is emphasized by the 
statement which we heard one grower make 
at the Convention, to the effect that it had 
cost him over a thousand dollars during the 
past season to spray his orchards, to say Noth¬ 
ing of the other care that had been given them. 
Officers elected to head the Horticultural 
Society for the coming year are as follows: 
President, J. B. Pease, of Gasport; first vice 
president, C. S. Wilson, of Hall; second vice 
president, E. W. Mitchell, of Kinderhook; 
third vice president, J. G. Case, of Sodus; 
fourth vice president, F. J. Freestone, of 
Wayne county; secretary and treasurer, Ray 
McPherson, of Le Roy; treasurer of the per¬ 
manent fund, H. E. Wellman, of Kendall; 
Executive Committee, Wiltsie Tenbroock, of 
Hudson; T. E. Cross, of Lagrangeville; W. 
D. Chase, of Monroe county and Leslie Tan¬ 
ner, of Sodus. 
A large amount of care was given at the 
meeting to resolutions effecting the interest 
of fruit growers and those 
adopted by the Convention 
are so important that we are 
giving most of them in full 
below: 
Supports College and Equipment 
Station 
Whereas, the benefits to the 
Horticulture of the State of New 
York from the investigations which 
are being conducted at the State 
Agricultural Experiment Station 
at Geneva, are becoming increas¬ 
ingly apparent each year; and 
Whereas, the Program for the 
Development of the facilities for 
research at the Station which has 
been prepared by the Director and 
Staff gives promise of still greater 
benefits tq the industry in the 
future; therefore, be it 
Resolved, that the New York 
State Horticultural Society, at its 
annual meeting in Rochester in 
January, 1923, hereby reiterates 
and confirms the action taken at its 
summer meetings in approval of 
the proposed Program of Develop¬ 
ment of the Station, and urges the 
adoption of this plan by the Gov¬ 
ernor as the basis for future finan¬ 
cial support for the Station; and 
be it further 
to convince the Resolved, that we specifically 
urge the Legislature of 1923 to 
make the necessary appropriations 
for the erection of the horticultural 
research laboratory building at Geneva and for the 
inauguration of the field investigations in horticul¬ 
ture in the Hudson River Valley. 
Whereas, Dr. Thatcher of the New York State 
Experiment Station at Geneva has prepared a plan 
at the request of the fruit growers for greatly en¬ 
larging the work at the Station, therefore, be it 
Resolved, that this Society hereby endorses that 
general plan and requests the chairman of the 
Senate J inance Committee and of the Assembly 
Ways and Means Committee to approve such plans. 
Also that a copy of this resolution be sent to each of 
the above named men. 
Whereas, the present buildings of the College of 
Agriculture at Ithaca are inadequate—lacking in 
accommodations for the staff of instructors and in 
seating accommodations for the students; and 
Whereas, the general building plan formulated 
several years ago provided that a Plant Pathology 
building should be erected the present year, there¬ 
fore, be it 
Resolved, that the New York State Horticultural 
Society hereby petitions the present Legislature to 
appropriate sufficient funds to erect and equip the 
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New York’s Horticultural Society in annual session maps out individual and organization plans for 1923 
