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me, aud would cull them and cull them by A'ankiiig them out and de- 

 stroying the plant. It was some years before I succeeded by various 

 wa^'s in educating the ])eoi)le that the things planted in the road were 

 mine just as though jdanted on my place, as I owned to the center of 

 the road. These things in a sense belonged to all of the public and the}' 

 should have the advantage of them, but when some one else takes an 

 ad\'antage, to the exclusion of all the others they are doing something 

 thev should not do. This education comes slowly, but it is something 

 that should receive consid.eration and especially in the education of the 

 young we should make it as important a thing to talk about to the 

 children as to have them speak grammatically. And more so. To 

 quicken the moral sense it is more important to teach in the schools 

 than almost anj'thing else. With this bit of experience and the moral 

 to be drawn from it I will sit down. 



Chairman : I will call next on Miss Sly. 



Miss Sly: T don't know just what ex])erience you want but one thing 

 that came u]) to my mind was the experience I liave had in fruit grow- 

 ing during the past ten years. Ten years ago I came back from the 

 East, wdiere I had been with my father who it seemed to be mv lot to 

 care for. The pigs were eating the apples because they had no com- 

 mercial value. I began to look into the matter and it seemed to me 

 that this was not as it should be. T sent to the Department of Agricul- 

 ture, and to the experiment stations for bulletins, and I made up my 

 mind that there could be something done with that orchard. I followed 

 their suggestions and directions explicitly and I think that you w^ho 

 attended the meeting at Birmingham, are aware of the results of that 

 effort. One man who took some apples asked if I w^ould guarantee a 

 worm hole in every apple, and he was told that for every apple that he 

 found a worm hole in he would be given a bushel wdthout any worm- 

 holes. Well we now have no trouble to sell our a])ples to the best grocer- 

 men of Detroit. We do not have to hunt them up, and beg them to 

 buy but they telephone me their order, and take all that I have. From 

 this experience I am convinced that there is no question but what you 

 will find a ready market and a good price for your fruit, if you always 

 have first class quality. 



Chairman : We would like to hear from Mr. Ladd, of Old Mission. 



Mr. Ladd : Mr. Chairman : We have had about the same experience 

 in the growing of fruit mentioned by Mr. Garfield — in some cases it 

 has lacked in quality and flavor and because of the peculiarity of the 

 season the yield has been cut short. However in many cases while 

 there has been some disappointments in the harvesting and packing 

 of the fruit, on the whole we have had a pretty good year. I do not 

 wish to complain of the season. AA-'e had frost late in the spring and 

 early in the fall. This affected not only the fruit but the corn, the 

 feeding value of which is not satisfactory to the stock. But these sea- 

 sons come once in a while — once in a number of years. I do not re- 

 member of seeing such a one during the last thirty years. Some of our 

 grapes did exceedingly well both in quality and in yield. The season 

 has averaged colder than usual and that has been very favorable to 

 the growth of oats — more so than to fruit. 



