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answer I want to eay that we have a nnmber of men who are every 

 year carrying ou as valuable a series of experiments in the different 

 departments of fruit, vegetable and tiower experimenting as are those 

 mentioned, and their results are published in our State report. These 

 experiments and experiences are all the more valuable because they 

 are made for a special purpose, to prove the value of special varieties 

 on certain soils and locations. Hundreds of men, scattered over the 

 State, are doing today what these sub-stations should be doing, and 

 these results are so detiuite and sure that you have only to ask them 

 the best varieties and soils and locations for making money and they 

 will tell you, and best of all, these results are in shape in our report, 

 so all may profit by them. 



But this experimenting is an expensive matter to each of us, and 

 although we reach conclusions that are safe and sure enough for us to 

 follow, yet all this should be done by the Experiment Station as a cen- 

 ter and four or five sub-stations as assistants. Such a complete and 

 concise statement of facts could be collected and sent out that it would 

 be very nearly a correct guide to follow. 



THE EXPERIMENT STATION 



Is now doing the best work ever done for the horticulturist, and out 

 lining a lot of work for the future that will be very valuable to every 

 fruit-grower. The sympathy and assistance of Prof. Waters and the 

 efiBcient work of Prof. Whitten and Prof. Stedman will surely place our 

 Station second to none in the land, instead of at the end, where we 

 have been so long. Let us give every encouragement to them in their 

 work and every assistance in carrying out their instructions. 



HORTICULTURAL INSTITUTES. 



It has been long the desire of this Society not only to co-operate 

 with the State Board of Agriculture in the holding of institutes, but 

 to hold a number of them itself. There are many points in our State 

 where the principal interest is that of fruit-growing, and we have calls 

 every year to come and hold an institute for two days at certain points. 

 The increased appropriation now enables us to do so, and in fact I may 

 add was made so that this could be done, and it was mutually under- 

 stood that it would be done. A number of places have already made 

 application for such an institute, and others will follow. As these 

 come up and we are called upon to do a part in carrying our work on, 

 let us do it with the same will and enthusiasm that we do all our busi- 

 ness matters. 



