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are reporting the riglit thing, and I suppose the same can be said of other 

 stations. 



Mr. Reid : You have scattered jour experimental work, have you not, 

 you have a number of sub-stations? 



Mr. McCluer: The other stations in Illinois are not under the control 

 of the State University. They are under the control of the State Horti- 

 cultural society. Their principal object is testing new varieties, and we 

 are buying and putting in a good many varieties in these stations. They 

 are scattered about over the state. Our state is divided, horticulturally, 

 into three sections — northern, central, and southern. Our northern sec- 

 tion has three stations, the central has three, and the southern five sta- 

 tions, where varieties are being tested. That is about the only work being 

 carried on at the stations. There is some work in spraying and methods 

 of cultivating, some work in methods of propagating, and some of our 

 people believe in "double" working. That is a western idea, and at least 

 one of our experimentalists is what people call a crank on the subject. 

 He is doing a good deal of work in that line. When I speak about some 

 of the results from our old apple orchard, as we call it, of the nearly 1,300 

 trees, there are perhaps twenty varieties on the list today, which, if I 

 were planting an apple orchard for my own private use, I would put 

 there. Twenty varieties out of 1,300 names. I think, sometimes, if I had 

 planted 1,300 seedling trees, I would have had more varieties, but per- 

 haps not. 



Mr.Morrill: That brings out a valuable idea. We have heard from 

 three of the greatest fruit states in the union, and what they are doing for 

 our education. We have with us, today. Prof. Bailey of New York who 

 has traveled over every portion of the Union and the fruit-producing por- . 

 tions of Europe. He is a Michigan product, now located in New York, 

 but we claim him. 



Mr. Willard: He has stood the transplanting well. 



Mr. Morrill: I would like to have Prof. Bailey give us something of 

 his impressions of the present and future of the intelligent horticulturist. 

 M'hat his prospects are and may be. He has an excellent knowledge of 

 the markets as well as of what is being done, and the obstacles in our 

 way. I would like to know, and I presume all fruitgrowers would like to 

 know, your opinion of the financial probabilities and the obstacles to 

 success which you see. 



Prof. Bailey: I might say, Mr. President, in answer to that question, 

 what my own practice is coming to be. I am connected, as you know 

 with an experiment station at Cornell University. However, I have 

 bought a farm and I am putting it out to fruit, and I hope the time is not 

 far distant when my experiment and teaching work shall be done, and I 

 am sufficiently confident of the natural rewards of horticulture to have 

 the desire growing in me every day to move on to that farm and make a 

 living from it. 



Mr. Williams: How did the man Bradley come out, under the fertili- 

 zation he has given? 



Mr. Willard : There were a few of those Baldwin trees the past season 

 that had some apples; but, as a rule, the fruit was scarce, and that has 

 been true, always, more or less. That idea was not ad-vanced for the 

 purpose of advising people to plant bone dust, but to show that there were 



