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the tree agent and the tree peddler, and go directly to the nursery, 

 or, as they say, buy only of some " old reliable nurseryman." I would 

 like to ask these gentlemen how many trees would there be set if it* 

 was not for this tree agent? I tell you. farmers, they are among your 

 best friends, for they will " stick closer than a brother."' Patronize 

 them, and see to.it that they deliver the trees according to contract. 

 Buy of your home nursery or send your orders into headquar- 

 ters yourself. No doubt this Avould be the best way, if you would 

 only do it. There is no trouble but what you can get the trees, and 

 good ones too, if you will only decide to have them. But for fear 

 our president will never give me a chance again, I will close. 



DISCUSSION ON FARMERS' HORTICULTURE. 



Mr. Minkler — I don t like the idea of planting so many varie- 

 ties as the paper suggests. Twenty-five kinds are too many — ten are 

 enough for me. Shelter belts for orchards are a thing of great im- 

 portance, and I would like to impress the people in some way of the 

 great need of such protection. 



Mr. Thomas — I do not agree with the writer in the setting out 

 part. If you cannot raise fruits, better plant what will do well, and 

 grow potatoes and buy apples. 



Mr. Kellogg — The greatest objection I see to the paper is too 

 many varieties of apples. I do not think there are three kinds that 

 we can tie to. I think it is better for a man to sell out if he has not 

 got a good place for growing fruit, or else grow crops and buy 

 apples, etc. 



Mr. Scott — A man in the northwestern part of our county 

 grew fifty bushels of peaches this last season. I picked some very 

 tine peaches last summer from some trees that were planted fifteen 

 or twenty years ago. The trees had sprouted up every year, thus 

 keeping alive and bearing occasionally. I think the suggestion in 

 the paper to plant peaches a good one. judging from my own obser- 

 vation. 



Mr. Minkler — Two years ago I had till the peaches my family 

 could use gathered from trees planted some thirty years ago. The 

 trees keep sprouting up so that T get peaches about every other year, 

 and a crop one year in five. 



President Slade — I think the surprising part of Mr. Scott's ex- 

 perience is the fact of his getting peaches after such a severe winter 



