Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-12-09
MAZE POMOtOGisTS.
4 Very Successful wirter Meeting Held At
Union.

4 Very Successful wister Meeting Held At
Union.
The Maine Pomoiogical Society held a
rpry successful winter meeting At lrion
Dee 9Th ard j,b, and it was favored with
good attendance.
The display Of fruit was well calculated
20 delight the eye and please the
palate. and among the collections ex-
hibited were winter fruit by the
Messrs. Staples of Temple, including
handsome Granite Beauty. Baldsin, Perry
pippia and Wagner Ion 70 Butler Of
Union bad Is plates of spplss and three OF
grapes Prssi lent Pope of Manchester, IL
plates inclndine magnificent Baldsins and
Kings; j. o Cobh. U"ion, bad good col
lection iGcluding HurIbur ard Lake; ID.
f. True of Leeds Center had good col
lection Of apples AMI pears; c. A. Arnold,
Arnold, several plates of apples, {. IL,
J ndkins, Chesterville, had some fine Spies
Ard other varieties. Among the individual
plates were some extra nice specimens OF
the several varieties The whole exhibit
numbered 40 plates of apples, seven OF
pasrs, three OF grapes and one of ounce.
| Mr.. c. f Wh. eler of Chesterviiie .xhih-
| tied two samples of apple jelly also canned
| apples the former made from apple par
| ing. of No 3 apples.
| The words of welcome were said hy Edi-
! tor |. ord of the Rockland Courier-GI zrtts
and 10 bis graceful and eloquent manmer
| President Adams of the State Il saad OF
| Agriculture responded, his remarks being
| followed by the annual address of Presi-
| Dent Pope of the State Pathological Society
| Mr. Pope had good words for small fruit
| for tht. farmers tables which supplied
daintes tina. no pastry and fine cooking
could take the place of. He called the al
tention Of the society to the importance OF
making an effort to influence the I4egisla-
| ture of the State to take some Legislative
action to prevent the ravages of ln'ect'
y bich devastate our orchards and fruit
c-pe, tally the trypeta and curculio Part
idges have become a nuisance in many 10
calities bv feeding upon the buds of the sp
ple trees in the fall and wioter months.
| Mr.. Pope spoke of the sentimental side
Of horticulture and urged more attertion tt
identifying the home. Time in cul,ivatine
! tlovers and supplying adornments in natur
al beauties of shrub and flowers was no
time lost This is moueymaking age
| but no farmers home can be caliei com
plete without these natural adornments, snt
COOL fruit and vegetable garden.
! Mr.. Willis A. Luce of Union, spoke al
some length upon "Maina Apples at t.,'
/ Worlds FAR
/ Mr.. Luce spoke of the inadequate appro
priatiou awarded to make an exhibit o.
| fruit at Chicago But notwithstanding tht
.mqllness of the appropriation the commit
| tee having the matter IN charge went aheae
and did the best they could with the meant
at hand Maine was the only New Eng
! land State which hal its fruit on exhibition
Mt the opening of the Fair. A disadvantage
to Maine was lack of proper interest II
the way to best arrange and make fins
exhiti ion. Maine was not in the show
business in comparison with the interest tbs
Western states have taken in the work
of tie frnits put in solution, owing to l
! faulty method used by the man EMPLOYEE
to DO the work, the fruit did not keep, and
thi. worked TO great disadvantage 10 tbs
Maine exhibit of fruit. 1t was thus tha
inf ,vor,ble reports from the press were
male because those writing it up described
| 1t "a they saw it. But taking the quality
of the fruit grown in Maine, we are secont
t. no other locality.
S, cretary d. II .Knowlton had some very
valuable suggestions in his paper. He
favored judging fruit by scale of points
a, used in Massachusetts,. Mentioned some
features BY which he thought this method
might be the better way. In order to re
cure first prize the samples should scale a
least - points, and not less than 80 point
| for the second.
There is more work in judging by a scsl'
of points but the method gives far create
,tisfaction He bespoke much value II
| county societies by adopting this method
and suyge stet the union OF effort of th'
Pathological Society and the board of agri
C iIture in urging upon county societies tn
i MP rtance of adopting this method
Mr. Knowlton spoke of the mesgernes
of the premiums offsred for fruit. lie tool
occasion to compare the value of the frui
Industry to the ia mers with the horse in
dustry which he said had ruined the pros
perity of hundreds of farmers and MT 'h
present time has literally loaded the far
nv RS down with Improbable hay and grail
eaters, that nobody wants TO buy at an.
price The past year he showed 10 hsy
bee one of unusual interest 10 fruit cultur
on the part of lard owners.
One of the Interesting features of thu
meeting wss the practic.Ily illustrated lee
'urr by Miss Anna Bsrfovs of the schoo
# Dome site sci' nee, B'st,r.
O, she second das Mr.. CAas. f. Wheel
or of Chestervlle ill speak on the feedinl
value of apples. He advises all h,vin,
Se ,dli ppl-- To feed THIN da ly. T
rho.e vi t-rlg sb"'es go,pI use can 10
mat. -. rppirs m milk. .specialiy ffozel
| H. h brv u Il, Il -;
an som. ran s.tl-a Mr.. VII eler' con
clusiou- We that q ere was certain vala
in rples a, food TO- .tN'k and they yer,
well worthy of b ing all saved for tina
purpose.
A feature of Wednesday forenoon wa
the fine and instru, tive sddress gwen b,
Hon. S d. Willard Of Geneva, n. Y, oil
Plum Culture
Mr.. Willard stated that he p-opoied 4
show up the outs ~ well as the Us TO u i
branch of fruit culture, and ebat be h ii {
communcst vas cleaned ir m his owl
experience.
H. gave some examples Of the prof able
ness of the plum as pared with sp2l' :
Stated th,t tn life Of the plur, was abou
25 ,ear-. 4 gre%t dra~ hack Ia llum ~
ture va. the bssck kNot, Il dis. ase sLlci
could not b. tritied with, .hould be cut GU
ard burned or the orner y i'll re ret his neg
lect While the culrarist mas protect him
self be has no immunity from bis ne glsctfu
ueIghbors, on whose tr' es the black excre
see, ce spreads its seeds. He spoke of th'
law which bad been enaetsd in his stat
making it an off<nca punishable by fine ans
imprisonment tn neglect destroy ing this fun
gus growing Bpsn ones trees. Ano'be
draw back ia plum culture is the leaf blight
but recent experiments have taught that I
| few eprsy in9s Of the Bordeaux mixture il
the early ssa.on vil prcseE. it. Thu
Refine Ciaule de Revay b.. considered III,
mo.t profitable of all plams. The LON
bard vas justly populr.
| The xe-, i.+s OF the sffarnoau inelrded
discu. sions upon o'char'lins an rol les per
tsinins thereto, and ia the evening Prof