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manner. What is j'our further effect on the [)eople of the State? You 

 are just a few. You phice one good fruit grower in the township in every 

 fruit growing township in this State and within ten years nearly every 

 man that is raising fruit is copying that fruit grower. The knowledge 

 from this College goes to you men who go to meetings of this kind. It 

 is carried to all portions of the State, spread out to all, and it is this 

 business which is the function of the Horticultural Society. 



I said while we are meeting at this i)lace we should consider our par- 

 ticular place in the spreading of Horticultural knowledge and the use of 

 the Horticultural Society which depends upon the individual effort 

 of each member as he goes home and tends to his own business in a selfish 

 manner. There is another thing that sometimes we think of, it is brought 

 to our attention at all times and that is, is this Horticultural College 

 science as important as in other States. You represent the greatest 

 proportion of the fruit growers from all over the State. Our work in 

 this society is the highest grade that they can possibly produce us. The 

 organizations in the other States seem more effective but if we could 

 stand away and look at Michigan's Horticultural Society we would 

 come back home and tell that we had the best Institution in the world. 

 They will tell you, you can do better, you should do better than you 

 are today. I remember twenty years ago there were eight or ten in the 

 meeting. It was a pretty good meeting for those days. You have heard 

 and I have heard how fine the old days used to be. I was talking to a 

 friend of mine one time and he was saying how much finer the days used 

 to be. I asked him, "What did you get a day when you were working?" 

 "We got 40 cents." "What did you wear?" "High top boots and over- 

 alls." "They were the good old days." Why were they the good old 

 days? He was young, full of vigor, that was the reason they were the 

 good old days. We will not try to compare the things of today with the 

 things of those days until we take the same standpoint, when you view 

 them. (Applause) 



Chairman: I am pleased to introduce to you Dr. Shaw of the Agri- 

 cultural Department. 



Dr. Shaw: The text of the sermon as you might call it was presented 

 by the presiding officer when he stated to you that the Horticulturists of 

 the State come to this Institution with problems that need solution. 

 I would like to talk just a few minutes al)Out the setting so far as the 

 investigations of the Agriculturist is concerned to meet the demands 

 that are made upon the Institution. The Horticultural interest of the 

 State of Michigan is very complex. Indeed, we are sometimes inclined 

 to make a classification of the industries of Michigan and divide them in 

 five groups. Some of you may have heard this classification before so 

 please be patient about it. We have a great manufacturing industry, a 

 great mining industry, a great marine industry, a great lumbering in- 

 dustry and a great agricultural industry. That makes five. Because 

 of the present condition in the State we are justified in dividing the 

 Agricultural industry in two Courses, Horticulture and Agriculture. 

 That makes six grand divisions. You recall that some of the States with 

 which we are sometimes compared do not have all six of these industries 

 uponjwhich their men have to be divided and their energy and thoughts 

 and^activities. Many of them have but two. Agriculture and Horti- 

 pulture. When the 1910 Federal census was taken the State of Michigan 



