Pomology

At tfee meeting of the l'omological Society ia Ann Arbor Saturday, John Williams, of Kalamazoo, who has had much experience in canning and drying fruit, expressed the opinión that peaches grown on the lake shore were of better flavor, while the same kind of fruit raised in Michigan was of a better quality than that raised in ïTew Jersey. As to the evaporation of fruit the cost was in favor of peaches. Last yearhe paid 20 cents a bushei for paring, and stoning the fruit. Prof. Nichols of the committee purehasing crates, reported thathe h received a mimber of Communications from different firms. One company would furnish bushei crates at from S7 to $10 perhundred;oue-half bushei crates at $70 per thousand. Prof. Baur thought baskets for shipping grapes, with wire handles, were not of sufflcient durability, is the handles were liable to come off. Boxes holding from two to three pounds was a conven ient size. J. 1). Baldwin addressed the convention on canning fruit. He believed the business could be made profitable at home. While it might be said that a few enterprises had failed there was no reason why, in Washtenaw, which was a great fruit growing conrity, a canning and fruit drying establishment could not be made a success financially. The present season will without doubt be a good one for fruit growers. With all the fruit coming into this market, Early Crawfords will sell for at least 75 cta. per buahel. Something should be done to preserve the early peaches. It can be made profitable. In California 202,000 packages of dried and canned fruits were put up in 18S0. Al) faetones seem to be doing a good business. In this city a manufactory could be established without a great outlay by purehasing real estáte. If it should be gone into, a small dividend would be the result of the undertaking. He would like to see all fruit growers take an interest in the business. No one man should be allowed to take a large amount of stock. An establishment should be strted at once. As f urther discussiou it was voted to organice a society for canning and drying fruit, and a committee was appointed to take subscriptiona. Mr. Baldwin took up the question of how to dispose of insects, particularly the coddling moth. He exhibited a device for exterminating the insect. It consistid of a lamp for burning kerosene oil, resting upon a small pedestal in the center of a tin pan, made to hold several pints of water. The insects, attracted by the light, will fly around it, and at their wings are singed will fall into the water, and the moths thus destroyed. He would not place over four of the devices to every acre of orchard. As soon as an orohard is in blossom he would set the lights a burning. 2T. 15. Covert thought that perhaps in exteiminating the coddling moth the eneray of the moth might be destroyec!. It wa3 a matter of considerable interest and the experiment might perhaps be tried, witk satisfactory re3ults.