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A Member: My country is in the same way that this man's country is. 

 We do not care much about the trees. They are about at bearing age 

 now, but they do not produce. I had a promise three years ago from the 

 experiment station that there would be a man come there and give us a 

 tallf along those lines, but he failed to do so. I have seen specimens of 

 the trees that were affected with fungous disease, and aic-o the fruit, and 

 he had seen them, and acknowledged they were in bad shape and needed 

 attention, and promised the second time to send a man there and give us 

 a talk on that line, but we failed to have a man come there. We are just 

 about in the same fix that this gentleman is in his country. It is in the 

 western part of the state. I guess it is the furthest division in the fruit 

 country. 



The Chairman: We will have a committee on resolutions, and if 

 you gentlemen will prepare a resolution that this society endorse this sort 

 of a movement and hand it to this committee we will do something with it. 

 We will now resume our meeting and listen to a paper by Mr. George H. 

 VanHouton of Lenox, Iowa, on the subject of "Where and How Can We 

 Grow Apples Successfully?" 



HOW AND WHERE CAN WE GROW APPLES SUCCESSFULLY? 

 Geo. H. VanHouten, Lenox. Iowa. 



I have no excuse to make for m.y absence from your meet- 

 ing this morning, or from the early part this afternoon, but in order 

 that you may not think I absented myself intentionally I will say 

 that I was on committee work all the time up to now, and that is the 

 reason I did not have the pleasure of being with you. I have written out 

 what I propose to say to you for reasons that I need not explain. As a 

 rule I do not write out what I am going to say, and do not know what I 

 am going to say, but in this case I will have a record that I will leave 

 with the secretary, so that you will have it, and there will be no dispute 

 as to what I will say on this occasion. 



It was with great reluctance that I accepted the invitation of your 

 secretary, so cordially given, to participate in your meeting by presenting 

 a paper on the above topic. I have prepared this paper with misgivings; 

 not that there is any desire to shirk a duty or refuse a request, but from 

 the fact that a paper along the desired lines must be prepared, in part at 

 least, from observation rather than from actual Nebraska experience. As 

 touching my qualifications to write on the subject, can say that I was 

 born near the Missouri river, in sight of Nebraska, and that most of the 

 years of my life have been spent in western Iowa and on the Missouri 

 watershed, and that my observations in Nebraska have extended over 

 many years; for, more than forty-seven years ago I traversed the entire 

 state, from east to west, and have done so frequently in the years since, 

 and that I am not a stranger to your state and its conditions, and yet 

 can not speak as one who has had long residential experience as to 

 methods, varieties, etc. 



