No. 7. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 505 



In looking into the conditions of the Experiment Station, I found 

 that its resources had been so husbanded, under the careful manage- 

 ment of Director Armsb}^, that there was the sum of |7,000.00 

 coming from the Federal Government and known as the Adams 

 Fund which must be expended before June 30, 1907. Of this sum, 

 $4,200.00 had been set aside for work in Animal Nutrition. The 

 Executive Committee has, therefore, agreed " to set aside the re- 

 maining 12,800.00 to be spent upon some definite horticultural in- 

 vestigation before June 30, 1907, with the expectation of continuing 

 these investigations out of the Adams Fund and other funds after 

 that date. 



Just what these investigations will be must be decided in con- 

 sultation with the man who will be employed to execute these ex- 

 periments. In this matter, the Dean and Director desires the coun- 

 sel and advice of tlie State Horticultural Society. The Experiment 

 Station desires to meet the most important needs of the horticul- 

 tural industries first and leave the less pressing needs for later in- 

 vestigation. The Director; however, feels sure that the time has 

 arrived when the investigations made at the Experiment Station 

 in Centre county are not sufficient to meet the needs of the horti- 

 culturists in Erie aitd Lancaster counties. The Experiment Station 

 of the future will be just as large as the State of Pennsylvania. 

 Probably, therefore, the most important work in the beginning is to 

 get acquainted with this State-Avide Experiment Station by making 

 a sort of reconnaissance, not for war but for peace; not for bullets 

 and bayonets but for fruits and floAvers; after which the most im- 

 portant problems can be studied in the most effective place and in 

 the most effective manner. 



COLD STORAGE— WHAT IT MEANS TO THE HORTICUL- 

 TURIST. 



By A. S. DeVOUT. 



THE PRESIDENT.— We are all interested to know how to get 

 the most dollars out of fruit, and we have invited ]\Ir. A. S. DeVout, 

 Manager of the Brelsford Packing & Storage Co., of this city, to 

 talk to us a little while on Cold Storage and what it means to the 

 horticulturist. 



MR. DEVOUT.— Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: I feel 

 somewhat out of place this evening. In the first place I am not a 

 public speaker, and in the second place, after listening to the re- 

 marks of the gentleman who have preceded me, men who have had 

 much practical experience, and closely in touch with the various 

 branches of the business of a Horticulturist, I may properly say that 

 I feel out of place. When your Chairman, Mr. Hiester, came to our 

 office and asked Mr. Worden, the Secretary and Treasurer of our 

 Company, to fill this place on your program, he was after the right 

 man, for he has had charge of the storage branch of our business 



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