The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-08
POMOLOGISTS EJECT OFFICERS
Many Prizes Were Awarded To Ex-
 IlfbitOFs of Fruit.

The two days annual meeting of the Connecticut Pomologica1 Society, which opened on Wednesday, came to a close in Hartford, Thursday after noon-
 The display of Connecticl1t-grown apples was never before so large.
 The following officers were elected for the ensuing year:
 PreSident->J. Norris Barnes of YaleSville
 Vice-President-s -stancliff Hale of South Glastonbury.
 secretary-H. C.. c. Miles of Mil
 Treasurer-Allen B. Cook of Far mfngton.
 County vtce-Presidents Fairfield county. G. A. Drew. of Greenwich; taLn.
 Vice-Presidents of the New England Fruit Show.-Charles s. Gold of West Cornwall.
 pr. c. D. Jarvis Of storrs. who is director of the extension service, told of what the Connecticut Agricultural | College has done and will do for the fruit interests. He told of the work | that had been done in the old or chards at Cheshire and Pomfret. This work has been carried for the last three years in these orchards and last year work was begun in another or chard at Bethel. The orchards in 1 Cheshire and POmfret are now in a fairly productive condition, and what has been done in these places, pr. Jar wis thought, had convinced the neigh bors that it pays to fix up their old l orchards. The work is of a perma- nent kind and is preferable to the temporary work of going into an or chard for a days demonstration in pruning and spraying. The desire is l to continue and enlarge on this per manent work, pr. Jarvis said. l PRUNING OF ORCHARD TREES.
 Professor A. G. Gu1Iey opened the discussion on What should Be Our f11n E07sIJT1 i17c CN1s<11a -r1 Trees 9" Professor Gulley said that hist idea of an ideal apple tree was one that was easy to spray, easy to get at, easy to pru1e and. easy to trim, the | idea being to. have the trees down so | that they can be got at and the fruit grown cheapIy. Professor Gulley said | he didn't doubt but that fruit growers here would have to follow the Western idea and get rid of the big trees aI- together.
 HANDLING OF OLD TREES
 D. Everett Brown of Pomfret has worked on trees which had been set out 100 years and others that had been set out fifty years. In pruning he ad- vocated the making of a clean, sharp cut as close as possible to the limb that is left There should be no stubs left. After the pruning some sort o1 dressing should be given to the cut te keep the water and germs out. Lin seed oil is used by some and paint by others, and while he uses cresote preparation, MT Brown considers 8 paint dressing as SiOOQ as d1ly. 1nere was difference in opinion as to when the dressing should be applied, but he thought the best time to apply it was at the time the pruning was done
 MT. Brown wanted low trees with spreading branches, so the sunshine can get at them. In pruning, all or chardists should prune enough to stin1- ulate a new growth of wood in the tree.
 Dr. E. H. Jenkins, director of the Connecticut experiment station spoke I<,. CN1oiI said that the repeated inVasions o1 Arctic ice and the glaciers, both or their travels and after they laid them selves down to die, together with al the lesser forces of geologic ages have mixed and sorted clays and silt and sand and stones until a soil Survey map of Connecticut would be a check CT board pattern, with one or more snua res to every farm.