160 Nebraska State Horticultural Society. 



Addi'essing the Agricultural Students. 



Professor Maine, who is at the head of the Minnesota Agricultural 

 Society, has insisted for the last three years that I should make the 

 college a visit and address the students. It is always a welcome task. 

 The students are of a fine order. Hundreds of young men and women 

 are fitting themselves to love the farm and adorn it. Some way we 

 seem to fit well. 



After the address the professor hustled me down to St. Paul, 

 where the business men of the city were giving a grand reception to 

 George H. Maxwell of irrigation fame. The banquet was a splendid 

 affair. It was held in the old Merchant Hotel, which was built about 

 fifty years ago, and is one of the landmarks in the progress of the great 

 northwest. Mr. Maxwell is a man of ideas, with a strong man back of 

 them. He is an orator and forms out his thoughts red-hot. He not 

 only advocates irrigation, but also the small farm of 100 acres, well 

 kept, so that it will give a family place, comfort and contentment, and 

 avoid the tremendous strain of the large farm half w'orked. 



Thursday afternoon was given to the Forestry Society, of which 

 the veteran, I. M. Loring, is president. Mr. Loring is called the father 

 of the great Minneapolis park system and seems conversant with the 

 forest conditions of Europe and America. He gave a splendid address, 

 w^ell reinforced with stereoptican views. 



The meeting was also addressed by George H. Maxwell, chairman 

 of the national irrigation committee. The reports from more experi- 

 ment stations were in the main very satisfactory. There is intense in- 

 terest in the production of new fruits, especially apples and plums. 



aiarch of Fruit Belt Northward. 



It has been proved that there is no portion of Minnesota or the 

 Dakotas where the ironclad apples cannot be grown. They have also 

 marched northward and invaded Manitoba. A Mr. Stephenson of 

 Nelson, Man., now has an orchard of 300 bearing trees, which this year 

 were loaded with apples, and more than 1,000 people came to see 

 them, and even adults born in the north, never before in their lives 

 saw growing on trees. 



One of the most interested visitors was W. G. Scott of "Winnipeg, 

 who for twenty years was treasurer of that city. Mr. Scott has resigned 

 his office to conduct a nursery near that metropolis of the north. Take 

 nil in all, the meeting was a splendid success. 



