OUTLOOK FOR COMMERCIAL ORCHARDING 271 



Professor Davisson: Mr. Chairman, I was not prepared for a speech 

 when I came in here this morning, but I will be glad to tell what I 

 can about our paper here at the Farm. I was talking to one of your 

 members here this morning, and he said that j'our society would be in- 

 terester in this. 



For several years our boys here have had a paper that we call 

 "Agriculture." This paper contains articles each month by our various 

 professors. One month it may be devoted to some particular phase of 

 the school work here at the farm and the next month possibly to another. 

 We have had pitcures of the various buildings here at the farm, from the 

 time the school was started down to the present time. Our last issue 

 contained 125 pages. And now I happen to be the editor and publisher 

 of this paper, and what we want is this, to have the Horticultural Society 

 to take an interest in this and help us out. Professor Emerson and these 

 men here at the Farm are doing a good work, and the people ought to 

 know about it. The salvation of Nebraska depends upon these young men 

 and women of our state who are coming down to the University to school, 

 and we want them to leave here with the right kind of ideas and pur- 

 poses. I hope to see the time when around every farm home in the 

 state of Nebraska we will have a windbreak. I want to see the time too 

 when we shall not pay too much attention to things material and when 

 we will devote more time to the culture of things beautiful, to the trees, 

 and flowers and grasses, etc. We want to get a good subscription list, 

 and it is growing all the time. The Horticultural Society could do well, 

 say in the issue of our paper which comes out the month before your 

 annual meetings, to have a notice of the meeting and a write-up of 

 horticultural matters in general and also to have your program pub- 

 lished, so that the boys and girls here at the farm and out in the state, 

 who receive the paper, would know what is coming and could prepare 

 to come to the meetings. Our paper will be glad to publish any notices 

 of this sort that you care to give us. Now I am going to pass around 

 these little slips, and I want you to write your name and home address 

 on these, and I will do the rest. I'll .send you a copy of our paper and 

 you can see what it is. 



The President: I noticed Mr. Copeland, of Elgin, who is one of the 

 Regents of the University, is here this morning. He is very much in- 

 terested in the beautifying of the farm home and landscape gardening in 

 general, and I am sure we would all like to hear from Mr. Copeland 

 about the beautifying of the grounds here at the University Farm. 



Mr. Copeland: Mr. Chairman, and Gentlemen of the Horticultural 

 Society, I am very glad indeed to be able to be with you this morning and 

 to exchange a few thoughts that I hope may be helpful to all of us. 

 I am a true lover of nature and of all things beautiful, and I have wanted 

 to get these things brought to the attention of the voters of the state and 

 for them to see what is being done here at the farm and on the campus 

 of the University down town. So the Board of Regents were good 

 enough to turn this thing over to me and they appointed me as a special 



