INDIANA HORTICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 52T 



The advent of the system of preserving fruit by cold storage is a 

 boon to the fruit grower. By its use we can avoid the danger of glutted 

 markets at harvest time and by distributing sales through a longer season 

 can obtain better average prices. This alone opens up great possibilities 

 for the fruit grower of the future, and its use is fast becoming a necessity 

 in all fruit-growing centers. 



While our fruit growers have accomplished much in the way of the 

 production of fine fruits and generous yields, we are still far from the 

 limit. There is an abundance of room for improvement. By better meth- 

 ods of culture we may increase the yield and quality of our fruit. Experi- 

 menters by crossing and by hybridizing are constantly giving us new 

 varieties. These do not always prove superior to those we already have, 

 but are the means by which we may expect to finally reach our ideals, 

 and much honor is due to those who are mailing this their life work. 

 We are constantly learning better and more efiicient methods of fighting 

 the insect pests and controlling the diseases which affect our trees and 

 plants, so we may confidently expect the future to bring forth greater 

 results tiian anything that has been accomplished in the past. 



The one thing most needful to reach our ideal and place Northern 

 Indiana where it belongs among the foremost fruit-producing sections of 

 this country is more of the right kind of men. Young men of pluck and 

 energy who have been educated for this line of work can find here an 

 inviting and hospitable field for their labors, and by their example bring 

 others to a realization of the grand opportunities which lie at their door. 



Prof. Latta: Owing to the lateness of the hour we will omit the dis- 

 cussion at this point. Is this satisfactory? We would like to give Mr. 

 Van Deman more time for the discussion of this important talk. Mr. Van 

 Deman, a veteran fruit-grower of New York, will discuss before you how 

 these possibilities discussed by Mr. Swaim may be realized, as it is not 

 your desire to postpone this discussion until afternoon. 



H. E. Van Deman, Apulia, New York: Mr, Chairman, Ladies and 

 Gentlemen— I have been stopping in Ncav York for a short time. My home 

 is now in Washington, but I feel at home all over the countiy. I was 

 born and reared in your neighboring state of Ohio, and conditions that 

 we meet here are very familiar to me, and have been from childhood. 

 I have always been very much pleased in my travels with the condition of 

 things in Northern Indiana and the northern part of Ohio. I know that 

 nature has done a great deal for that part of the country. Your soil is 

 low, is rich, etc., and while you have a climate that is somewhat rigorous 

 at times, as has been suggested by the man who has just spoken, still 

 the climate is not so rigorous but that almost all orchard fruits, small 

 fruits and grapes may be grown with great success right here and all 

 over this part of the State, and neighboring states. You hear folks say. 



