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the sense that they were revolutionists, because I believe that they 

 would have welcomed the czar to any of their little huts. But it didn't 

 seem to me there was much more hope in teaching them agriculture, from 

 a scientific standpoint, than the encouragement of holding farmers' in- 

 stitutes among the Indians of the United States." 



Professor Hansen says that the seedless apples so far have not 

 been a success. He says they have been monstrosities, and that they 

 lack the best qualities of other apples. He declares that there may 

 happen a good seedless apple at some time, however.' 



Professor Hansen will leave today for Brookings. He appeared 

 last week at the Kansas State Horticultural meeting at Topeka, and 

 later will attend the Nebraska Horticultural Society meeting. Pro- 

 fessor Hansen says that tree-planting is much more general through- 

 out South Dakota than was formerly the case, and the production of 

 fruit is being steadily improved. 



Professor Hansen is a native of Denmark, and was graduated from 

 the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts. — Kansas 

 City Journal. 



SEEDLESS FRUIT A FREAK. 



A Genuine Orchardist Has No Use for It, Says N. E. Hansen, a Pro- 

 fessor in the Brooklyn Agricultural College, Who Has Studied 

 Fruit Growing in Many Parts of the World. 



"Seedless oranges and seedless apples are freaks, fruit deformities, 

 that the genuine orchardist has no use for," said Prof. N. E. Hansen of 

 South Dakota Agricultural College at Brookings, who was at the 

 Coates House last night. "Of course, in the way of working for legiti- 

 mate varieties, every grower can be his own Burbank, but no one is 

 looking much for crippled specimens. We will get seedless fruits some 

 day, but nature will produce them for us. Agricultural scientists are 

 contented to wait for that. In the meantime, we have found that the 

 laws of heredity have a very great influence on the growth and quality 

 of fruits. Environment is found to play a large part in the quality of 

 fruits. 



"Even the apple has a moral character that can be corrupted by 

 associating with loose or common companions. It's becoming a case 

 with them, too, of 'show me your companions and I'll tell you what you 



are.' " 



Prof Hansen, who came to Kansas City to lecture before the Hor- 



