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do. They will tell won that the Kansas people do plant trees and plant 

 a great many of them, and to show you that the enthusiasm never stops, 

 President Wellhouse, who is older probably than any other man in the 

 house, with one or two exceptions, is still planting orchards. He is now 

 negotiating for another tract of land to plant another orchard on. We 

 can plant trees no matter what our age is ; if we don't get the good of 

 them somebody else will. 



I was up at Tonganoxie to an orchard he planted seven years ago 

 and the trees were just one mass of Gano apples of fine quality. They 

 were packing them in barrels at that time. 



I want to say that the Kansas State Horticultural Society will hold 

 their meeting the day following Christmas, the 26th, 27th and 28th of De- 

 cember, and you are all invited to be present. If you want to see another 

 display of good fruit come over to the state house at Topeka and stay 

 with us during the three days. 



Mr. Augustine of Illinois. — I am certainly pleased to be with you, 

 and I am very much pleased with the enthusiasm and interest that your 

 society is manifesting. I am really surprised to find such a large at- 

 tendance. I have been in the habit of attending one society and one 

 sister state society every year, but for some reason or other I never got 

 down into Missouri, but I find that your attendance is larger, I believe, 

 than almost any other state that I have visited, unless it may be Michigan, 

 and Iowa will come pretty close to it. I have to say Iowa, because 

 friend Wilson is right by my side here. I have been very much pleased 

 with my visit here. 



So far as the fruit interests of my own state are concerned, I am 

 free to say we have not been so enthusiastic this year. We have had a 

 moderate crop of apples ; not by any means a full crop ; not more than 

 a half of a crop in the apple regions, and I am sorry to say that we have 

 been troubled with the Codling Moth worse than perhaps any year in 

 many years past. In fact, I never knew it to be so bad. Some very 

 fine appearing apples were just completely riddled, and were almost unfit 

 for the market, because of the damage done by the CodHng Moth. 



We are having a growing interest in our state in the way of the 

 Kieffer pear. Our people are planting very largely, and we are having 

 annual crops. The pears sell very well, and they are coming into bear- 

 ing, and our people are very enthusiastic over the Kieffer, and I might 

 say they are planting the Garber along with it, and they are coming along 

 to plant the Leconte also, but the Kieffer is the one most favored with 

 us, and it is more regular in its bearing than most any other fruit. This 

 is more particularly so, because we can't grow the common varieties in 

 our state. 



