142 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Miss Rowan: The food value is not very much in the skin. 



Mr. Yager: This lady has given us a very nice talk. I recall a few 

 years ago the Ladies' Home Journal offered a prize of four or five hundred 

 dollars to the woman in the United States who would best answer a ques- 

 tion. The question was, "How can a woman retain the love of her hus- 

 band?" Of course they got thousands and thousands of letters from all 

 over the country and some were very long and elaborate, but they kept 

 on receiving the letters, and finally the day came on which they were to 

 decide. Among these they found one reply consisting of three words only, 

 and they said that is a rather short one, but in the end this one finally 

 took the prize, and it read this way, "Feed the brute." 



And as a matter of fact that is the proposition exactly. She has given 

 us a very good talk along that line, and for years my thought has been 

 just along the line she has suggested this morning, that these girls who 

 put in fourteen or sixteen years learning how to teach school, and are sup- 

 posed to be our future cooks and have no instruction on that line, I predict 

 that the day is coming and not far off, when cooking and household eco- 

 nomics will be taught in all the schools, and our girls will learn sewing and 

 cooking and so forth, instead of much they now are taught in our schools. 



The President: As it is only 11 o'clock, I think we have time for re- 

 port of the Iowa meeting. Mr. Marshall was a delegate over to the Iowa 

 Horticultural meeting, and I think he has a report to make. 



IOWA HORTICULTURAL MEETING AND FRUIT SHOW. 

 C, G. Marshall, Delegate. 



That the fruit growers of Iowa are very much awake and enthusiastic 

 over horticultural prospects in their state was plain to be seen at the re- 

 cent meeting of the Iowa State Horticultural Society in Des Moines. The 

 past season, Iowa produced one of the largest fruit crops every grown in 

 the state, and owing to the much improved methods of orchard manage- 

 ment now being practiced by Iowa growers the crop was very profitable 

 in most cases. During the past three or four years rapid strides have 

 been made in Iowa in the practice of spraying, cultivation, pruning and 

 handling of the fruit. Almost every grower of consequence is now thor- 

 oughly spraying, pruning, and cultivating and many are packing according 

 to more up-to-date methods, the box package being used quite extensively. 



At the meeting questions pertaining to the planting, culture, spraying, 

 marketing and harvesting, and heating, of orchards on a commercial scale 

 — more particularly the apple — seemed to occupy the center of the stage. 

 The Iowa State College has done considerable the past two seasons to 

 stimulate commercial fruit growing and to improve the methods prac- 

 ticed. An orchard of more than twenty acres near Council Bluffs is oper- 

 ated by the college under a lease, and a number of experiments will be 

 tried out. Problems of soil fertility, cultivation, spraying, and packing are 

 being worked out. A number of horticultural short courses have been 



