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largely. The development of that crop will depend much upon the weath- 

 er next summer, but the beginning of it has already taken place, probably. 



Mr. Snoke: Would not early pruning, say September pruning, hav€( 

 the effect of producing flower buds? I saw a statement in an agricul- 

 tural paper to that effect, that pruning early in September would have 

 a tendency of producing flower buds. 



Professor Webster: I do not just see why it would do it; and I am 

 not prepared to say it would not. It is well known that pruning early 

 in the spring and thus checking the growth, will tend to make flower 

 buds for the next year. Just why pruning in September would be more 

 effectual than at any other time, I do not now understand. 



President Hobbs: It is now getting late in the evening, and I 

 believe Professor Latta has a few words to say before we adjourn, and 

 we will hear him at this time. 



Professor Latta: I would like to make an announcement or two before 

 we adjourn. Professor Golf's talk has interested me very much, and 

 I wish that I might sum up in a few words the good things of this meet- 

 ing. I could not do that now, but I am sure you will all agree with me 

 that instructions of the highest order have been given here diu-ing these 

 few days; and I think you will agree with me when I say that I believe 

 from the interest that has been manifest here, that many have been 

 studying along these lines as well as listening to the papers and addresses 

 given here; and I believe they will go away thinking about these things 

 and investigating. I believe that tlie good of gatherings like this can 

 hardly be overestimated. 



Do you know, brothers, that in a child the perceptive and receptive 

 and reasoning faculties are keen. The boys and girls see and hear lots. 

 And there are boys and girls here today who have seen and heard a great 

 deal today. If their powers, liQme-training and early school training 

 have not been sadly defective, they will come to a new womanhood and 

 manhood. 



Now I want to make a plea for a school; not for a day, nor for two 

 or three days, but for weeks and months and years, for these boys and 

 girls who are just coming into womanhood and manhood, with those ob- 

 serving powers still keen, with life still before them, for a good outlook 

 for long years. Imagine that this meeting might be continued, we will 

 say high class instructions, from day to day, before these bright pupils 

 with their keen intellects, those who are not j-et loaded with the cares 

 of life and its responsibilities— who can say how much they could get 

 from a few weeks, or a few months, or years of such training, such 

 instructions? That is just what is being done for the young people at 

 the great agricultural college. Such a meeting as we have had today is 



