Milford chronicle., 1932-12-09
FRUIT GROWERS
ELECT OFFICERS
AT ANNUAL MEET
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sect pests so that growers might be
acquainted with such pests and use
control measures to prevent their
damaging work among orchards on
the Peninsula.
officers for the year including
vice presidents for the several cOun-
ties in the three states of the penin-
! sula are as follows:
President, j. G.. Harrison, Berlin.
Md; vice president, H. E, Coverdale,
Dover; secretary, J. F. Adams, Do
yer; treasurer, w. Lee Allen, Sal
isbury, Md.
Vice presidents for States of Del
aware, Maryland and Virginia by
counties:
Delaware, New Castle county,
Newton L. Grubb; Kent county, j.
Lord; Sussex county, w. C. Newton.
Maryland, Cecil county, J. E. Lip
pincott; Kent county, Mrs. Evelyn
Harris; Queen Annes county W..
Irving Walker; Caroline county. A..
w. Sisk; Talbot county, Otto San
ger; Wicomico county, w. R. Disha-
room; Dorchester county, Fred
Hirst; Worcester county, F. j..
Dukes; Somerset county, Homer S.
Kemp.
Virginia, Accomac county, w. O..
Strong; Northampton county, w. l..
Elzey.
Executive committee, H. G. Baker,
Bridgeville; Albert Fiske, Easton.
Nd; F. w. Allen, Salisbury, Md.
Place of the next meeting was
left with the executive committee.
1t will in all probability be held
somewhere on the Eastern Shore of
Maryland.
Addressing the 46th annual meet
ing of the Society Thursday night of
last week Frank w. Richardson,
president of the organization, said
that three lessons had been learned
from the depression.
These he cited as follows:
Quality products only can be
produced. at profit.
1--WE must work harder and think
better to produce that profit.
"And last, but not least, let us get
some of the real enjoyment that
comes from helping nature produce
the fruit and vegetable crops that
she does on this, our wonderful,
peninsula"
His address was presented at the
opening session of the sOciety's an
nual meeting at Camden.
Dr. J. F.. Adams, of the Delaware
Agricultural Experiment Station,
Newark, secretary of the Peninsula
Horticultural Society, was the first
to address the society on Thursday.
His talk was on "Some Recent
Spraying Results in Delaware"
DR.. C. A. Temple, extension plant
pathologist, of the Maryland Agri-
cultural Experiment Station, Col
lege Park, Md, discussed Expert
ences in the Control of Apple Scab |
During 1882"
Factors Influencing the Profit
able Production of Fruit" was the |
subject of an address by v. c. Auch-
ter, principal horticulturist in
charge of the Bureau of Plant In
dustry, U. S. Department of Agri-
culture, Washington.
Some New Facts About the Nu
triton of Orchards" by NJ. A. Blake,
horticulturist of the New Jersey As
ricultural Experiment Station, New
NJ. j., disclosed ways
and means of treatment of orchards
BY scientific methods resulting in
healthier orchards and naturally
making them more productive.
Factors Affecting the Develop
nent of Red Color in Apples" by J.
4. Beaumont, horticulturist, of the
Maryland Agricultural Experiment
Station, College Park, were shown
1y the location of the trees as to
he sunlight and the treatment of
such trees by the latest processes
to the growth of the trees
Ind by spraying at times when the
,uds and apples are at certain
tages of growth.
N. L. Partridge, research pomolo-
,ist, Michigan Agricultural Expert
mental Station, East Lansing, Mich,
rave talk on "Growing the Best
type of Fruiting Canes for Grapes"