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gentleness ; Elliott of Minneapolis, who got a very bad eye in an acci- 

 dent and never complained ; Adams of Kansas City, Mo., the scedman 

 who won't take his cap off to any man on earth when it comes to driving 

 down Arkansas rocky hills ; Garcia of New Mexico, with midnight eyes 

 and quiet voice; Watrous of Des Moines, who does not approve of new 

 women; Kirkpatrick of Texas, who said so many nice things to the 

 women of the party that they all loved him to death; Butterfield of 

 Lee's Summit, a tall, lean and hungry looking Cassius ; Evans, pere, of 

 Kansas City, Mo., who is the father of the Olden fruit farm, and Evans, 

 fil, who lives on the crest of the Ozarks at Mountain Grove, Mo., and 

 who can play the pianola to beat the band ; Lowmiller of Parkville, 

 whose delicious fruit was to be had for the asking ; Diehl of Kansas City, 

 a modern St. Nicholas ; Perkins of Argentine, who saw that the ladies 

 never wanted attention; Espenlaub, Dean, Holman, Smith, young and 

 unattached "Doc" Eyman, of whom no one knew anything, but who 

 was always in the front, and Goodman, but when it comes to Goodman, 

 nothing but a book will tell of his manifold charms. • 



Imagine all these men and as many more good fellows, together with 

 twelve women, who were strictly in it, and then let your fancy run riot 

 as they steamed away down south on the Kansas City Southern railway 

 towards the great fruit orchards which lie along the line of that road. 



And then, after a thousand miles along the lines of the Southern: 

 and the 'Frisco, returning to Kansas City via the 'Frisco, with interesting, 

 thoughts of the great orchard district and pleasant memories of new 

 and old friends.— From Farm Folk. 



OBSERVATIONS ON BLIGHT CANKERS OF APPLE TREES- 



(Summary of an address delivered before the American Pomological Society.) 



The twig blight of pears and apples became very severe in July 

 and August throughout the section about Ithaca. The fruit was fre- 

 quently affected. A large number of cultures from these different sources; 

 was obtained and a comparative study made of the organisms. Those 

 from the twigs, fruit and cankers both of the apple and the pear were 

 found to be the same. Inoculations were made from the pears to apples 

 and from'apples to pears, always with the same result, that the typical 

 -blight appeared in about ten days. There can be little doubt, then, that 

 the organism of the apple canker is identical with that of the fire blight 

 of pears and apple twigs, Bacillus amylovorus. 



There are several ways in which infection from this disease may 



