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Educational Work 



An attempt has been made to bring before all our students at 

 the O. A. C. the advantages of paying more attention to nut culture. 

 These lectures have always been well received and almost invariably 

 have aroused special interest in the minds of those who are horticul- 

 turally inclined. 



Addresses on nut culture have been given to Kiwanis Clubs and 

 Horticultural Societies and articles have been written for the agri- 

 cultural and horticultural press. 



A small bulletin is being written and It is hoped that it will be 

 available for distribution in a short time. 



Plans for the Future 



The activities outlined above will be continued on a larger scale 

 and in a more thorough manner, provided I can get the necessary 

 funds to carry on the work. The search for superior trees and 

 bushes will be continued and nuts from good trees in China and 

 Japan will be introduced in much greater quantities for test pur- 

 poses. The conversion of poor or ordinary native nut trees into 

 superior trees by grafting will receive special attention. 



In this way, ladies and gentlemen, I hope to attain the ideal of 

 all true horticulturists, e. g., " To make our country more beautiful 

 and fruitful and thereby help to serve the aesthetic and physical 

 needs of our people." 



Doctor Morris : Mr. Chairman : Canada is the next country 

 in which great developments in all of the branches of science will 

 occur. It is to develop, of course, in our present cultural period and 

 I hope this movement for the development of nut culture in Canada 

 will keep pace with the other developments. 



I want to speak about one point of Mr. Corsan's. Game breed- 

 ing can go very well with nut raising. Wild geese will graze like 

 sheep, they will keep the grass and weeds down, and after they are 

 ten days old they need no feeding at all until winter comes. They 

 will graze like sheep, live out of doors like sheep, take the place of 

 sheep, and will return to the land immediately valuable fertilization. 



The pheasants Mr. Corsan spoke about are tremendous destroy- 

 ers of insects. I have had pheasants in my garden this year and the 

 other morning I looked out of the window and saw a pheasant in the 

 midst of a nest of fall web worms. The pheasants will destroy 

 insects of every sort. The only difficulty is that where there are 

 rosebugs in abundance they will kill young pheasants. 



I hope every one will take a copy of this " Game Breeder " that 

 Mr. Corsan has left on the table. The subscription price is very 

 small and we may profitably add game breeding of certain kinds to 

 our nut breeding with benefit all around. 



Mr. Bixby: Mr. President: There are some points brought 

 out upon which I could throw some light. I have some specimens of 



