Washtenaw Pomology

The Junuary meeting "I lbo Wahtehuw pouiologioal society, wit li J. Austin Scott in the clifcir, was largeiy ultended. George Aprill went Ilirotigli u MteChlsiD of questions, put by J. IJ. Buldwln, in reK'iil to ihc rwulta of uU mnHutaoture of jelly in Scio. Air. Aprill slulcd that lust aiilunin wat u very favorable. lealOQ lor hi business, us lie ooold buy apples at 10 cents per bushel, and as apule (lid nut keep anti pay lor ihipplng, inany farmers tnrned thelr tpplei luto oïder and Jelly. He failed Ui íiiid a niaiket tor lus Jelly in Detroit and Toledo, us in oheapai H liis jellies coulil uot compete wlth the hnitatious sold for jelly. He found, liowevcr, u home market for lii.s Jelly Frank AUmiMidinger : "Detroit and Toledo are in the fruit and whrat belt. We never tliink of sending any tiour to these places. Fruit preserves must be sent beyond these fruit centers." The president called on Mr. Aliñendiuger who read all Interestlog paper on the teasibility of erectlny a fruit preserving establishment In Ann Arbor. In re gard to the probabilities of such a factory tour (inestions were answered by Mr. A's paper. lst. Will any sort of a fruit preserving establishment puy in Ann Arbor? 2nd. Wliat ahould its equipment embrace? ;rd. What investment will be necessary ? And 4tn. What returns may be expected ? In answer to the Ihst inquiry, it must be said that a complete answer uaiinot be given until a trial has been had. However if jelly making pan at Dexter why not at Anu Arbor? Ir evaporutiug bas given satisfactory return the past year at South Lynn, at Manchester and Clielsea, why should a similar resul t nol be atlain able here? The only refoiiree of these points is apples. You have apples, sniall fruit, peache. You coulU run similar concerns a inucli longer period of time each year. Most of you have many hundreds of dollars invesled in fruit Uves or 8hrubs. Sometiines a gieat ua.-te of peaches bas oceurred for lack if' nicans for caring for second grade fruit. Said one fruit grovver a lew days agu : " My shipments of barrels netted me ouly seven kbilllogl per busbnl last ipriog and it was DOt nincli of a spring lor fruit either."1 Sorae season we shall have the abundan! yleld wliicli occasionally coinés. What will bis berrie8 be worth then ! The same is true of peiiehes Could not most of you afford to uvest soineth'n g as a rueans of carinar for this occasional heavy yield legarding It as a part of the outlay neeessarily connected wltli your business? Would not stiel an investment pay a good return to you in S&VÍOX fruit whlch would otherwise decay in your oichards or berry palches ? 2nd question : What should be the equipmeut? The beginning shouHl be a modest oue. There is room for growth. In one year's time you Can edúcate a do, en or more hands for your work and then if the time comes for solargemeitt, tlie proper person for a manager will probably have bien found on the erouild an I the imported anide will piove unnecco.- ary. I have set in this room and heard talk ol an establishment like the one at Adrián which cost $25,000 or $30,000. I have here seen a man cooly propose to come to Ann Arbor and manage such an iustitutio:i for you, wlio, on qnettlonlng, frankly confessed he had no experience whatever. Wlth a sma.ll start, it can alsn be awertained by exierience what brancht-s of the woi k to push hardest. The plan I propose is as follows: Commence with jelly maklagand evaporating oomolned. Tlie waste froin the fvaporating ould all be used in jelly making. In the evaporator could be cured your berrie?, peaches and apples. Or you could make jelly of the same. A series of experiments eau be carried on with reference to preserving r..ii. to drying squash and pumpkin, and to canning umi, peas, bemin, etc. If the venture, as you have couiin en eed it. shows fair returns, capital ül be avuilable to enlurge the iuduMrv to any approved extunt. Questiou 3rd. What wül It CIM RnlIrllnB" flOOU Frultüryer 5V) Parers 300 Boller and Engine goo Clder PreHs 4uo Orater, etc 4j Evaporator 300 tü per cent nu Total .$3515 To this must be added an amoiint for jrround which will vary for the locality. $4000 capital can be made to start you ín good shape. $5000 will pay you in almost any iocation in Ann Arbor and leave you several hundred dollars for running. A company with $5000 capital uieaus 100 shwres of stock at $50 each. Question 4th. Will it pay? Incidcntally this has been treated already. We may add that the dayof great speculative returns from this business have pawed. It is now in this business us In all others, a question of the survival of the fittest. If you have as good a chance as Dexter, Manchester. Chelsea mid the rest with an Improved equipment, you should succeed. The returns wül then be a fair interest on the capital invested and to uiembers of this society, w ha te ver advantage comea from ability to save fruit at tintel which would otherwise waste, etc. Messrs. Allmendinger and Aprill were botli unanimously elected honorary members of this society and added as meinbers to the committee that Iihs this sclieme under consideration. The thanks of the socie'y were tendered to Mr. Allmendinger for bis able paper. After a dlscussion of tlie same it appeared that the tirst outlay would be lesa, as both room and steam inight be renied. H. D. Mursh, general agentof the Acme evaporator, was introduced. He gave an account of the evaporalor No. 4, capacity T.")0 to 1,000 lbs. in twentv-four lioiirn. price $800. Sten in is used for evaporation in this machine. It gives more Iba. per bushel than any other evaporator und the product it turns out need not be culled. Tlie evaporator ia not apt to bum up as steain is emploj ed. Mr. Marsli exbibited line specimens of evaporated apple, statiiijf, however, tlntt only white rueated apples would produce sucU white dried fruit, yellow meated apples would look yellow. J. D. Buldwln stated that evaporated apples were worth in New Vork 12 nd 13 cents per lb., and all kinds of diied fruit had advanced. Mr. Alursh stated that hiscompiiny was holding on to tueir diied apples as a stil I greater advance was ex peet ed on account of the scarclty of green apples, and that the foreign demand for American evaporated fruit was increasing. E. Baur related liis trouble with a neighbor, who generally trespasses on Sunday. J. Ganzhorn spoke of the reluctance of the prowooÜng attorney to prosecute fruit tuieves, when he bronght clear cases of trespass ber'ore hini. Vfm. McCreery stated that he had succceilcd with the prosecuting atlorney to get war rauts for fruit thieves. One had settled bis case and the other was still in the hands of au otücer. Judge Paííe and E. Baur were appointed a eommittee to prepare a petition to the le;islature, representing, that stealing trom a garden, orchard or cultivated tield ought to be punished and brauded in a similar manner as steii I i ng from a house, shop or store, and that fruit growers should be deputized to make arrests on their premisos, said comniittee to report at the next meeting of the society. Those who hadexamined fruit buds reported that so far the cold had done no tu im to peach buds. Tilo corresponding seereUry was inBtructed to correspond with a Montreiil örm in regard to infusorlal i-artli for the preservation of fruit. Mr. Clough, chairman of the committee on fruit-preserving betory, announced meeting of the commiltee next Sattmlav ifternoou at '2 p. in. in the rooms of the iocietv.