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peach, yellow, ripening between the Crawfords, and the fruits grow larger 

 as the trees grow older. 



Mr. Stearns: I exhibited this peach at the state fair seventeen years- 

 ago, and it was awarded the premium as the best of the sixteen seedlings 

 on exhibition. It was named the Kalamazoo by the committee on awards. 

 The original tree was a Yellow Albert, the parent of Barnard, and thia 

 peach was first borne on a sprout from the roots below the bud. 



ENTHUSIASM NEEDFUL TO SUCCESS. 



Mr. W. W. Teacy of Detroit: In my travels over this and other states- 

 I see men, farmers, who have toiled all their lives but who yet must sell 

 and abandon their farms ; others who can not get out from their burden of 

 debt, while others are making money, both from farming and fruitgrowing, 

 in the same localities. I find that the successful men are the enthusiastic 

 men — the others complain, dread their work, and discourage all about 

 them. Mr. Tracy proceeded with a strong plea for the ornamentation of 

 homes and grounds, by use of flowers, trees, and lawns. This, he said, he 

 did not from mere sentiment, but as a consideration of hard, business-like 

 sense. Make the home beautiful, that you may make it enjoyable for 

 yourselves and your children. If you fail to do this, you fail to get the 

 best and most out of it. 



TRANSPORTATION — DISTRIBUTION. 



Mr. Coryell of the Agricultural college spoke of the reshipment of 

 fruit from Chicago to interior points in Michigan and other states, and 

 said that while the Lawton growers were sending grapes to Chicago and 

 getting eleven cents per basket for them, Lansing people were paying from 

 twenty-five to thirty-five cents per basket. He urged direct shipments to 

 such towns as Lansing. 



Mr. Henry Ford, in answer to a question, said the present rate on 

 grapes from Lawton to Chicago was twenty-four cents per 100 pounds, and 

 said they are not yet able to get any such rate to Lansing. 



Mr. Morrill: Ornamental horticulture is the only kind which never 

 proves unprofitable. 



Mr. Atwell: There is much difficulty in getting satisfactory rates to 

 other points than Chicago, and until the growers are organized, so as to 

 know how much fruit is needed in interior towns, they would be likely,, 

 each sending for himself, to glut such limited markets. 



Mr. FoRD: If at Lansing and other such towns we could get orders for 

 car lots, we might be able to get much lower freight rates, but no such 

 quantities are wanted there. 



