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purpose. There is a record kept of the parentage of those known seed- 

 Hngs that we may know what they are and from what sources they 

 came, and that is being done now quite successfully, and the result of 

 this scientific work has developed a race of new apples that has been 

 produced in that region from seedlings.. Mr. Payne has done more 

 than any other one man in Iowa, and he is a great enthusiast along 

 that line, and has been worth a great deal to our state, and after he 

 is dead and forgotten we will enjoy the results of his thirty or forty 

 years' hard Jabor and study along this line. It is regretted that things 

 are that way in this world that a man may work thirty or forty years 

 and become a benefactor, and as soon as he passes out of the world he 

 is so soon forgotten. Such was the case with Mr. Bull, who originated 

 the Concord grape. There is nothing to compare with the Concord 

 grape. Now I venture the assertion that after Mr. Payne is gone, we 

 will then begin to appreciate his work. He has certainly accomplished 

 great things for the North. 



Now you people here in Missouri and Kansas were furnished with 

 a better climate and a milder climate. You consequently could grow 

 fruit with much less efifort than we could in Northern Iowa. I am 

 proud of the progress of Northern Iowa in this particular line. 



A question : Won't you in a very few words explain a little of 

 the method of Mr. Payne in his cross fertilization? 



It is a very interesting question. Mr. Payne is a very careful 

 man, and he is very judicious in his selection of seedlings. When he 

 produces a lot of apple seedlings he selects the most promising ones 

 in growth and leaf and wood and then he top works a few of them 

 as soon as possible on some bearing trees to produce specimens of the 

 fruit at the earlist date possible, and he keeps this experimenting 

 right up. He is fertilizing a large quantity of apples every year, and 

 keeps a record of this scientific work, and then keeps a record of the 

 seedlings, and he is fruiting them just as fast as he can. He has got 

 a wonderful work on his ground. It would take you a whole day to 

 see what he has got there. I don't believe you could see it all in a 

 day. It would perhaps take longer to go into the details of his ex- 

 perimental station at Charles City, and he is producing a number of 

 very valuable apples. 



A question: What do you think of the Utters Red? 



That is an excellent fall apple up in Iowa, or early winter apple. 

 It is hardy, and produces fairly well fine large apples, but it is not 

 a Wealthy. 



A question: How about the Duchess? 



The Dutchess is alright, but there is a question about whether it 



