150 State Horticultural Society. 



lanclie on the mountain side, only the boy who tramped 2,500 miles 

 might have gone to the top instead of the bottom. Then let us hasten 

 the time when agriculture and horticulture will be taught in all the dis- 

 trict schools in all the states. 



There is a growing demand for a better education, one that will give 

 to the boy special thought and inquiry, and this can be acquired only in 

 the public schools. This will give a new impetus to the demand for that 

 more thorough and practical education, which can only be acquired at a 

 first class agricultural college. An eminent wit once said the school is 

 a big thing and the chief business of life is to educate children. Let us 

 be thankful that there is a growing realization that this was a truth. We 

 should b6 proud of the fact that this society has a standing committee on 

 education and that they are actively and earnestly working to this end. 

 Let us hope that their work and the combined efforts of so many who 

 are taking a lively interest in the matter will ere long solve the problem. 

 Let us with pleasure look forward to the near future when farmer boys 

 and girls will be educated to the farm instead of away from it. 



WHAT TO DO AVITH THE SUEPLUS FRUIT. 

 By Mrs. W. B. Chambers, Eepublic, Mo. 



Some irreverent person has said that when Eve ate the forbidden 

 fruit in the Garden of Eden, she was merely tasting different varieties of 

 apples, hoping sometime to own a fruit farm in Southwest Missouri. 



Be that as it may, since that time there has been more or less interest 

 in fruit growing. 



"What to Do With the Surplus Fruit on the Farm" is a subject of 

 such magnitude and so many possibilities that I do not feel competent to 

 handle it. A great variety is included in canning, preserving, pick- 

 ling, etc. 



Canned fruit is a great improvement on preser'V'ing, being much 

 more economical and requiring less time. Canned fruit can be prepared 

 in various ways, using sugar or not, as best suits the kind of fruit you are 



