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in. Has no place here at a meeting of this kind, especially in a town where 

 "there is a reason." 



Down south the darkies are very religious, and they all have their churches. 

 One good old negro woman finally came north, and for the first time entered 

 a beautiful modern church. The usher showed her to a seat and she looked 

 around. " Glory to God! Glory to God! I'se glad this house is de Lawd's." 



The usher came up and tapped her on the shoulder and said, "Madam^ 

 3^ou will have to be quiet. Please don't make any commotion." 



"All right, I will be quiet. I will." 



Then the organ burst out, and she jumped up again. "Glory to God.'' 



The usher again tapped her on the shoulder and said, "You must not 

 make such a noise. You must be quiet." 



"All right. I will be quiet." 



In a minute the choir burst out in song. She could not stand it. "Glory 

 to God! Glory to God! I'se glad I'se here. I'se glad I'se got religion!" 



He came up and said, "Madam, you will have to get right out of here. 

 This church is no place to get religion." (Laughter.) 



This is a scientific charge that is made by the fellows that know more 

 than I do about that particular thing. I know land where clover does not 

 grow very well the first year. If we stimulate it the first year with a little 

 nitrogen, the clover growth is better next year. But cow peas will in my 

 experience grow on any and all kinds of soil, during the corn growing season 

 only, as they are a little more tender of cold than Indian corn. 



CONTROLLING THE SAN JOSE SCALE. 



W. W, FARNSWORTH, WATERVILLE, OHIO. 



I think it was Solomon, that man of large wisdom and many sorrows, 

 who once said there was nothing new under the sun. I have sometimes 

 thought he had the San Jose scale problem in mind when he uttered that 

 truth; for it would seem, with all the attention we have given this for the 

 last ten years; all the discussing (and sometimes the cussing) we have given 

 it, that we would have it worn pretty nearly threadbare. But we find 

 there are a great many perhaps who do not thoroughly understand it yet; 

 and sometimes an interchange of views and experiences may help those 

 of us who have been in the harness for a long time. 



It is unnecessary to go into a history of it. Perhaps the best I can do in 

 this brief talk this morning will be to give you a general idea of how we have 

 been handling it ourselves and keeping it under control. 



Of course you all know one of the first remedies that was suggested for 

 the control of it, was the whale oil soap, which we found effective, but very 

 expensive and very difficult to apply. My first experience with it was on a 

 little plum tree; I had planted 1,000 plum trees, and the following spring 

 in going over the orchard and pruning them I found one tree badly infested. 

 I pulled up the tree immediately, and tied a handkerchief on the adjoining 

 tree so I could readily find the exact spot where the tree had been pulled 

 out; took the tree up to the packing house in the center of the orchard, 

 where the men were just gathering in with their tools, showed the tree to all 



