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not need storage so much if had more wild blood in the fruit. 



Mr. Erb — Two varieties of apples did remarkably well in South 

 Missouri, Ingram and Geniton. Both are small. Would thinning them 

 in June develop the rest to a larger size. 



Professor Hansen — Overbearing is just as much a fault as lack of 

 quality. We can invent new varieties adapted to our conditions and 

 leave out the faults. We are too apt to wait for something to turn up. 

 Mr. Burbanks turns things up without waiting. We have reached the 

 point when we should do something for ourselves. 



Mr. Van Houten — Have tried many seedlings, to find at last some 

 fault. The experiments should be carried along until good shall come 

 out of them. There ought to be a man breeding especially for Missouri, 

 and in each locality the same, so as to produce just what is wanted in 

 that place. C. G. Patton of Charles City, Iowa, has made wonderful 

 success in this line. Believe we are nearer to a scientific solution of the 

 fruit problem than ever before. 



Professor Hansen — We can get such qualities as size, color, etc., 

 from present knowledge. 



DUST SPRAYING APPLE ORCHARDS. 



(Geo. T. Lincoln, Bentonville, Ark.) 



I have attended several of your meetings and have been a member 

 of your Society for the past three years. I have listened with pleasure 

 and much profit to myself to the many strong papers and splendid 

 speeches that have been made by men and women, not only learned in 

 the sciences, but of practical experience in the care and management of 

 an apple orchard. And, as no man should expect anything of such 

 great value as I have received from these meetings for nothing. 



Therefore, Mr. President, I have been requested by your worthy 

 Secretary to pay as far as I could by giving my limited experience on 

 the all-important subject of spraying an apple orchard with the dust 

 process. Knowing, as I do, the character, ability and experience of the 

 men of this Society, and knowing that the Missouri State Horticultural 

 Society stands second to no State Society m all this broad land of ours, 

 therefore, I feel timid and much embarrassed in appearing before }OU. 

 I expect, after T have been a member as long as my good friend, Colonel 

 Evans, has,. I will get over it. 



Spraying all up-to-date fruit growers consider a necessity, forced 

 upon us by our enemies, the canker worm, coddling moth and other in- 



