§98 BOARD OF AGKICULIURE, 



I certainly think it is a very proper tiling for everyone to liave a 

 good, thorough training at some agricultural college. 



Mr. Widney: I would like to add one word in regard to the prac- 

 tical part of the bulletins that are sent out from the station. It was my 

 misfortune not to have the opportunity to go to college, and to get a 

 college education, but I consider that from these bulletins I have had 

 an opportunity which is about equal to that given by a correspondence 

 school. From these I have gained a great deal. There are several modes 

 of education, and one is practical experience. I would like to say to 

 those who are starting out in the horticultural world, that to me prac- 

 tical experience has been the most expensive thing I have ever had. I 

 would also say to anyone who is considering going into this line, by all 

 means commence at some agricultural college, and get the benefit of the 

 experience of others. 



There is one thing I wish to say about Mr. Morrell's peach orchard. 

 Some of my friends are here. I started out in the fruit culture on that 

 line. I believe if there was any man proud I was over my orchard five or 

 six years ago. I hoed it once a week regularly as clockwork. Along 

 came a hard winter. I had gone to the extreme. My next experience was 

 digging out those plum trees and throwing them over back of the barn. 

 This was extreme cultivation carried to an extreme. We admit we went 

 too far. We cultivated them to the very best of our ability, and so I 

 advise anyone who is thinking of doing this class of work, to go to school. 

 I would have been dollars ahead if I had shut up and quit business and 

 gone to an agricultural school. 



Mr. Van Norman: A man in doing this class of work must have all 

 the conditions right. This man had the other training that went with it. 

 There are so many of these conditions that must be handled together it 

 takes such a big head to get them all right at the same time. 



Prof. Latta: We have a great many young men and women in our 

 college but we can't prepare them fast enough to meet the demand that 

 will grow rapidly in the near future. Mark it if it does not fall true. 



Now I thought it best not to diverge from the main line to answer Mr. 

 Stanley's question, but we will come to his question when we are talk- 

 ing of strawberries tomorrow. Tomorrow morning we will give the entire 

 session to the strawberry unless we finish it in less time. The afternoon 

 will be devoted to the apple. Please bear this in mind, as they are 

 practical subjects by practical men of intensely practical means. 



