Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-01-12
THE STATE HORT|-
CULTURAL SOCIETY

1SG 0aAehG ~ " NJ ~
Annual meeting Of this society was held
in the State House, Trenton, last Thursday
and Friday with one-hundred delegates and
twenty-five representatives of societies Of
neighboring States present. The sessions
were of vital interest to fruit growers.
feature of the meeting was an exhibit
of natural and canned fruit in competition
for cash prizes offered by the society. This
attracted much attention.
STUDY Is RECOMMENDED.
The annual report Of Secretary Budd
dwelt with general horticultural conditions
in this State. He recommended the general
study of horticulture not only among
school children, but also adults.
The annual report of Treasurer Black
well showed balance Of $612 OF. The
report was referred to an auditing commit
tee composed OF Messrs. ROBBERS and E. S,
Black.
The following commissioners were ap
pointed On nominations, D. Augustus
Vanderyeer, Freehold; S. B. Ketchum,
Pennington; David Blaird, William H.
Reid, Tennent and William H. Morgan,
Westmont. On caring for delegates, Fl.
f. Hale, Princeton, and William H. Reid,
Tennent.
Thursday afternoon Ellis H. Rudderow,
Moorestown read a paper on s'How 20
Raise Small Fruits to Profit, (which was
followed by the presentation of paper by
State Entomologist John B. Smith, of New
Brunswick on Result of Years Spraying"
After reviewing the work of the year in
experimenting with various washes for the
determination of the San Jose scale and
other tree enemies, Professor Smiths paper
said Upon looking the entire field over,
analyzing the results obtained in New Jer
sey, comparing them with the reports thus
far received from other States and analyzing
these, we come to the conclusion that,
after all, the most certain, the most effec-
tive and the most direct of all the contact
Insecticides that have been used against
this pernicious scale are the petroleum oils. "
Professor Smith also stated in the paper
that good results had been obtained by the
use of a proprietary soluble oil preparation,
but that this was too costly for ordinary
use.
METHOD OF SPRAYING.
A Mr.. Brown, of Wyoming, Del, spoke
on Modern Methods of Spraying.
He said the rapid spread of the insect
enemies of fruit trees made it necessary for
the horticulturist to spray or get out of
business. He claimed that wash of lime,
sulphur and salt was one of the best rem
edies, but that the ingredients must be alb
solutely pure and the mixture applied in
telligently, or good results could not be
obtained
n. II. Conrow, of Riverton, read paper
on his observations in the South, made dur
ing an excursion last October. He outlined
cotton growing and marketing, and COM
pared Southern farm methods with those in
in this State.
DELEGATES CHOSEN.
The new supreme court room, where the
sessions were held, was we'll filled
Thursday night at the evening session. Mr..
Brown spoke again, giving practical ex-
planation of fruit packages. He exhibited
number of varieties of packages for the
shipment of fruit and vegetables to market.
After the session adjourned the executive
committee met and selected the delegates
to represent the society at the horticultural
meetings in neighboring States as follows ::
Peninsular society, President Skillman and
Charles Black, of Hightstown; Connecticut
society, President Skillman; East New
York society, Elias Black, Hightstown;
Pennsylvania society, William Fl. Morgan,
Westmont, and William H. Reid, Tennent.
During Fridays session the following Of
ficers were elected: President, William
Fl. Skilman, Belle Meade; Vice President,
Horace Roberts, Fellowship, Burlington
county; Secretary, Henry |. Budd, Mt
Holly; Treasurer, Ira ]. Blackwell, Titus
vile; Executive Committee, DR.. ]. B.
Ward, Lyons Farms. Essex county; E. p.
Bsebe, Elizabeth; D. Augustus yandever,
Freehold, W A. Reid, Tennent; II. c.
Hale. Princeton.
Committees were appointed on fruit,
flowers, vegetables, special fruits. Among
the committeeman was John Repp, of
Glassboro, on fruits, and Albert Repp, OF
Glassboro, on vegetables. Albert Repp, of
Glassboro, was also appointed delegate to
the State Board Of Agricultural
Friday morning H. w. Collingwood, ed
itor Of the Rural New YORKER, spoke on
horticultural Education for the Country
Boy"
Mr. Colllngwood contended that the
principles of rural sciences cannot be taught