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that we are commanded to go forth and glorify and replenish the earth. 

 The trees have the same command to them, and they go forth and glorify. 

 Let a gopher get underneath and cut off its roots, and if that tree has 

 never had a crop, it will have one then. It seems to me to be scared, 

 and to do something before it dies seems to be v'hat ii wants to do. 

 Trees that have not been bearing all their lives, if you will trim them 

 thoroughly, they will bear all right the next season. 



The secretary reads the next question as follows: "What advantage 

 has the cut-away harrow over the common disc in orchard cultivation?" 



Mr. C. G. Marshall: We have had quite a littie experience with orch- 

 ard cultivation with discs, the last few years, since we have been leasing 

 orchards, and we are using the extension reversible orchard disc, the 

 ordinary round disc harrow, and although the cut-away has been recom- 

 mended to us, I can not see that we could improve much over the other 

 disc. We found that if we have it sharp we can drag up a stiff blue grass 

 sod. And it does the work very nicely. One team of horses will drag 

 one of these discs along all right, and by cultivating after a good heavy 

 rain, you can establish a good soil mulch. 



Mr. Christy: They claim that the cut-away disc will go deeper, but 

 I do not know that that makes any difference, because I think this goes 

 deep enough. 



The secretary reads question number "4" as follows: "Can the Eng- 

 lish walnut be grown in Nebraska?" 



Mr. Pollard: I have some ten trees of English walnut that have been 

 planted sixteen or seventeen years. They grov/ up every year, and 

 make a magnificent growth and freeze down eveiT winter. 



Mr. Yeager: A couple of years ago I found some growing in Dodge 

 county, and I thought I had made a discovery and I kept track of them, 

 and found they did the same way that Mr. Pollard's did. 



A Member: I would like to ask Mr. Christy if he knows what Judge 

 Stull's results were in his experiment of putting out English walnuts. 



A. It was a failure. 



A Member: Well, a certain form of the English walnut is grown 

 successfully in New York. It is called the Pomroy walnut. It started 

 there from a visitor from New York at the Philadelphia Exposition, who 

 found an old tree in Philadelphia growing in the house m which he stayed 

 during the fair, and he gathered some of the walnuts and took them to 

 Rochester, New York, and planted them there. They have grown and mul- 

 tiplied and have planted around there in various places and seem to be 

 doing well. And now 1 believe they are offering them for sale. It seems 

 to be a rather hardy form. 



The secretary reads question number 5 as follows: "Might it not 

 be practical to consider the employment of the larger scholars in our 

 schools with the consent of school authorities and the scholars in horti- 

 cultural work to receive educational credit for such, in addition to 

 wages. 



