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  conclusion 
  of 
  authorities 
  after 
  examination 
  of 
  data. 
  Chemical 
  

   examination 
  of 
  nuts 
  has 
  been 
  made 
  by 
  our 
  Department 
  of 
  Agri- 
  

   culture 
  at 
  Washington 
  and 
  by 
  chemists 
  elsewhere. 
  The 
  nut 
  crop, 
  

   then, 
  is 
  to 
  be 
  perhaps 
  the 
  staple 
  food 
  crop 
  for 
  the 
  people 
  of 
  the 
  

   United 
  States 
  one 
  thousand 
  years 
  from 
  now, 
  when 
  we 
  are 
  depend- 
  

   ing 
  upon 
  methods 
  of 
  intensive 
  cultivation 
  for 
  the 
  annual 
  plants. 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  true, 
  of 
  course, 
  that 
  three 
  thousand 
  years 
  before 
  Christ, 
  

   the 
  Emperor 
  Yu 
  developed 
  in 
  China 
  a 
  system 
  of 
  agriculture 
  that 
  

   is 
  better 
  than 
  any 
  European 
  or 
  American 
  system 
  today 
  both 
  as 
  to 
  

   production 
  and 
  transportation 
  — 
  perhaps 
  including 
  distribution. 
  

   At 
  the 
  present 
  time 
  China 
  is 
  supporting 
  a 
  larger 
  population 
  to 
  the 
  

   acre 
  than 
  any 
  other 
  country. 
  • 
  

  

  All 
  this 
  comes 
  to 
  mind 
  in 
  response 
  to 
  the 
  address 
  of 
  welcome 
  by 
  

   Dr. 
  Worsham. 
  Here 
  at 
  this 
  point 
  of 
  our 
  United 
  States, 
  there 
  is 
  

   already 
  a 
  center 
  of 
  the 
  new 
  movement 
  for 
  the 
  development 
  of 
  

   the 
  great 
  future 
  food 
  supply 
  of 
  the 
  world, 
  a 
  nut 
  nursery 
  center. 
  

   Here 
  we 
  find 
  also 
  another 
  feature 
  of 
  great 
  consequence 
  from 
  the 
  

   economic 
  and 
  politic 
  side. 
  We 
  find 
  honest 
  nurserymen. 
  That 
  is 
  

   a 
  very 
  important 
  matter. 
  As 
  nations 
  advance 
  in 
  culture 
  the 
  

   moral 
  side 
  develops, 
  and 
  as 
  the 
  ethical 
  side 
  develops 
  there 
  will 
  be 
  

   better 
  representatives 
  in 
  the 
  trades 
  and 
  in 
  all 
  callings. 
  The 
  nursery 
  

   business 
  is 
  near 
  to 
  nature 
  and 
  for 
  that 
  reason 
  simple 
  people 
  have 
  

   assumed 
  that 
  nurserymen 
  were 
  nearly 
  as 
  white 
  as 
  snow. 
  Those 
  

   of 
  us 
  who 
  have 
  had 
  some 
  experience 
  with 
  them, 
  know 
  what 
  it 
  means 
  

   to 
  find 
  honest 
  ones. 
  We 
  deeply 
  appreciate 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  in 
  this 
  

   part 
  of 
  the 
  country 
  honest 
  nurserymen 
  are 
  making 
  a 
  name 
  for 
  

   themselves 
  and 
  for 
  America. 
  

  

  I 
  know 
  Evansville 
  not 
  only 
  in 
  this 
  way 
  that 
  I 
  have 
  been 
  speaking 
  

   of 
  but 
  also 
  in 
  a 
  professional 
  way 
  because 
  of 
  its 
  doctors. 
  There 
  are 
  

   two 
  or 
  three 
  or 
  four 
  of 
  the 
  Evansville 
  doctors 
  — 
  you 
  do 
  not 
  know 
  

   that 
  as 
  members 
  of 
  this 
  Association, 
  but 
  I 
  know 
  it 
  as 
  a 
  member 
  of 
  

   our 
  great 
  profession 
  — 
  who 
  have 
  placed 
  Evansville 
  upon 
  the 
  map. 
  

   This 
  city 
  is 
  best 
  known 
  throughout 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  in 
  the 
  medical 
  

   profession 
  because 
  of 
  some 
  three 
  or 
  four 
  Evansville 
  doctors 
  of 
  the 
  

   present 
  and 
  past. 
  

  

  Therefore 
  it 
  is 
  with 
  a 
  double 
  pleasure 
  that 
  I 
  respond 
  to 
  the 
  

   address 
  of 
  welcome 
  given 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Worsham. 
  

  

  The 
  President: 
  We 
  will 
  now 
  hear 
  from 
  Hon. 
  W. 
  0. 
  Potter 
  of 
  

   Marion, 
  Hlinois. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Potter: 
  Mr, 
  Chairman, 
  Ladies 
  and 
  Gentlemen: 
  This 
  

   meeting 
  to 
  me 
  is 
  something 
  out 
  of 
  the 
  ordinary. 
  I 
  can 
  remember 
  

   that 
  when 
  I 
  was 
  a 
  boy 
  I 
  knew 
  every 
  good 
  hickory 
  nut 
  tree 
  in 
  the 
  

  

  