92 State Horticultural Society. 



articles read in the silver-lined incubator catalogues, but the writer 

 has been there with both feet, and truth is mighty when it comes to 

 raising poultry. 



Master Details. 1. Have a love for the business. Do not get dis- 

 couraged. Remember experience often comes before profit. Study 

 to show yourself approved by carefully reading good poultry jour- 

 nals and putting the good suggestions there made into practice. 

 Then combined fruit and poultry farming will bring you a steady 

 income every month in the year and one branch of business will 

 materially benefit the other and both be a pleasure and benefit to 

 you. 



HOTICULTURAL PROBLEMS. 



(Hon. H. M. Dunlap, Havoy, 111.) 



Senator H. M. Dunlap of Illinois was present, and in response 

 to invitation, spoke on the problems before the horticulturists in 

 that State, which were, he said, about the same as in Missouri. 

 For some time testing varieties took a large part of the time. 

 People coming from various parts of the United States planted 

 favorite varieties and orchards were very spotted. Some of the 

 spots were naked spots, the trees dying out. The doctrine at that 

 time was to set out trees and test them. The early planters knew 

 little of spraying. After the question of varieties was settled other 

 problems confronted us. Problems of culture and spraying. No 

 longer a question if we shall spray or not, but the best time, best 

 material, etc. Our experiment stations have been testing, and we 

 believe we have reached advanced ground perhaps; but we came 

 here to be shown what you know about dust spraying. Illinois 

 thought she had passed this problem and had given it up. Our 

 great problem now is marketing our products. Hope this matter 

 will be* brought more fully to the front by the Apple Growers' 

 Congress, and, with the help of these societies, think we can solve 

 them. There is a universal market open to all of us if we get cold 

 storage, transportation and all those matters adjusted. Spraying 

 is as essential a point as cultivation, and if I could only do one of 

 them, would go out of the business, as both are necessary. In the 

 matter of pruning, I find that the average grower is apt to prune 

 too much in place of too little. This is a radical statement, but 

 believe that it is right, for I have seen orchards where the man's 

 time would have been more valuable if he had been sitting by the 



