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Pomology

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
February
Year
1881
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Public Domain
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Thr ciiuiity pomulogical society met at, the court-house laai Baturday. The at - tendanee was quite Iwfe. The meeting was rulled to order ly vice-president baldwio, vico president Button presiding. The feasibility of storting n fruit and vegetable canning enleeprtee in tliis city wasagain taken up, arifl the speakers enconraged the project. The committee ippointed for cODBidëring the matter (lid not mukc any report on accounl of the ab,ci](-e of its chairman. .). I). Baldwiü was ihc lirsi speaker, who said tliat eanodag hooaea thus far eaiablishedaround ua were nlghly sttccessfal and that they we enla--ging their facilities in order to BUpply the inercased demande. Híalsospoke of the adtan !as;es in giving etnploymcni to hiborers in establishing such a biwinesí. With the iocreasing demands oí foreign markets, for our fruits, togethcr witfi the supply required in uur home ncreasing marteta we noed not to lx; sfraid in óvrdin the production of fruit. Prof. Emil Baur lielioved a catining house conld be si(;cessfully carried on here. He feit confident tliat small fruits in particular wcre quite profltable for eau ning. The professor informed the meeting thal the southcru part of Geriuaiiy. a country well knowu for its suocessful fruit culture, had rcceutly sufTered heavy losses by iicstrucuve spring irosis, wuicu ia a Urge degree déstroy tbc orcbards, cspecially the apple. He ilso menüoued those sent to that country last year were pronounced superior to those growd ihere. Michigan apples, hesaid.were the bestgrown in tliis country, and far surpass those gtown west and south. On tlic whole he feit very muclt encour iged with the fruit business. ,1. Austin Srott.in his happy aml pleasant way, noxt addresse'd the meeting. He is alwuvH listened to with unusual interest and attention. lic was pleased to M.J ihat he was much intcrested in what M said by the preceeding speakers, and. line tbem.felt assured that a canning establishment could be profltably carried on here. We need and wan! them all around us and the world w i 11 pequire thetr products. If all the suitable lauda were put into apples witli the proper varieties and proprrly managed, he contended, would not over do the business, butall the produdt would be needed by the world's markets. fr. Scott laid particular stress on the importance to give good care to trees. The cultivator, hesaid.shoukl have a love tor nis business and then he would sucreed. lic who grows jjood fruit is more of n public benefactor than he who inakes two plats of frasa grow wbeta bul one grew bef ore. To grow and pmduce bomelhlng is Onti ót mhn'a noblesl efforts. N. B. Covert intcrested the meeting with a descriplion of Sample jellies which be was displaying, and which were prepared by Miss Sarah Flctcher. The jellies were made of Esopus Spitzenburg and Khoda Island Grecning apples Thcro was alsoa sample of apple jflly f rom È jelty manufactururof .Manchester, sbown by J. D Baldwin. The latter was made without the use of sugar, bul was not considered as good or as profltablé as the othcr jellies which w eic made with a moderate quantity of sugar. Miss Sarah Flctcher was bigbij' complimented for her skill in producing such excellent jellies.and a vote of thauks ni given her for her kimlness In preparing the jellies on tlic table. Miss Flelcher 3tated tliat 10 to 15 minutes was sufficient to make jelly with sugar, when, on tlie other hand, without sugar, half a day WOllld bfl cunsumed. One pouud of sugar, or a little less, slie expkined.makes a quart of jelly, r fmr half pint cups; the narket value of each one half pint iup, slie said, was 15 eente; Ten Imshcls of apples, Miss FlcUhcr -stated, is claimcd to make'a barrel of eider-, tbis quantity of apples madi' into jolly, with a moderate quantity of sugar, would give a profil of (81, allowing nothfng for tbc labor. (nbcing asked about what the labor would be worth, Bhe tliouglit thal three days or less, fot one person would do the work. Mr. Bodwell spoke on niakiiiji apple Jellies, His esperionoe aud kqowledge of ihe business was encouraging. ivxd% I'. L. Pajre spoke of llic moral side to the quesUon under discussion vice the good effect upon the coinmunity lliat would follow in giving employment to a lan;e mimber of idle pcople through the cstablisliments of canniog, or fruit preaerring houaes, lic believed the opportunity ought not to le lost, and thal steps should bc taken immcdiately in bfinging tliis matter to a realizatlon. He boped l bat the vegetable growers would attend Ibe next meeting and assist in establlshn at once the enterprise in contemplation. The former treasurer, John C. Ilubner, handed in bis report for the last year 1880, which was referred the ixccu live convmittee.

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