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in southern Ohio. In "79 I came to Richardson Cotmty, Nebraska, and in 

 '82 I planted an apple orchard. This orchard was pruned severely, 

 which I do not think is the proper method; and I would not prune year 

 in and year out, but only as the orchard needed it. My experience has 

 been that the best time to prune is not later than the 20th of May to the 

 1st of July. 



The President. We have exhausted our program for this afternoon, 

 and if there is nothing further a motion to adjourn will be in order. 

 Meeting adjourned until 8:00 P. M. 



EVENING SESSION, 8:00 P. M. 



The President: The meeting will now please come to order. We are 

 always very much pleased when any of our friends from the University 

 are with us. Tonight Professor Burnett, who is Dean of the College of 

 Agriculture of the University, is here and we will be very glad to hear 

 from him. 



Professor Burnett: :M/. Chairman, Members of the State Horticultural 

 Society, Ladies and Gentlement: I am very glad to be with you tonight 

 and to be honored with a place on your program. While my work at the 

 University is more particularly along the lines of Agriculture, neverthe- 

 less I am very much interested in Horticulture. I am interested in this 

 society and am glad to see the increasing good it is doing for the people 

 of the state. The purpose of this society in spreading horticultural 

 knowledge and arousing more interest in this work is very commendable 

 and worthy and the results being accomplished are beneficial to the 

 whole state. 



The Extension of Horticulture in NebniNka. 



E. A. Burnett, Dean of the College of Agriculture, University of Nebraska. 



Primarily the orchard and garden furnish the source of supply of a 

 most necessary portion of the subsistence of every family, viz., vegetables 

 and fruit.. If we can not secure these fresh from our own garden and 

 orchard, weare forced to use a much inferior and more e.xpensive article 

 in the form of canned goods. A proper knowledge of how to grow fresh 

 vegetables and fruits would minister to the health and happiness of all 

 those who are not now proficient in the art. From a purely economic 

 point of view, there is every reason why the farmer should study these 

 questions and should become so thoroughly familiar with methods of 

 growing trees and fruits that he may be able to supply his family more 

 generously than he will ever do if he does not raise them on the farm. 



There are excellent reasons aside from economic ones why the farmer 

 should learn how to grow choice fruits, shelter belts, and groves for his 

 farmstead. This state has developed from its almost treeless condition, 

 with its endless monotony of landscape, into one of rich farms with com- 



