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there have been from ji fruitless to a fniit-lxiaring state. I 

 remember Avhen T first came here I wanted some strawberries, 

 that was at York. I remember in the early days what an in- 

 tense longing- we had for fruit. With carrots and beets and 

 everything else, I remember when mother used to chop up 

 meat for mince pies. But when I went to York I planted 

 some fruit ; I planted some strawberries, but I found that the 

 children were getting in and eating them, so I put up a warn- 

 ing, "Thou shalt not steal," and when I went out to get some 

 strawberries I found that the children were just a little 

 thicker than the strawberries, taking both the ripe and the 

 green ones, too, and I said help yourselves and pick them as 

 fast as you can, and they did. I have lived to see the time 

 when we have Nebraska grown products of fruits, grains, 

 corn, wheat, oats, young forests, and thus began the advance- 

 ment along horticultural and forestry lines. I lived amid the 

 students as they swarmed into our University, and I think 

 the Nebraska-grown students are the best and the richest ac- 

 quaintances we have yet received, and one we have received 

 is a Nebraska-grown Chancellor. We didn't have to import 

 him, but we got just as good a one as there is going; we arc 

 proud of him, we love him, and we will say God bless him. 



Now then, Mr. Chancellor, our Society is near the dividing 

 of the ways. In the first place we loaned our energies toward 

 the development of fruits. Well, that was all right, but there 

 is a higher phase, and we are paying especial attention to that. 

 You will find it so east, west, north, and south that they are 

 doing the same. I attended one of those great meetings in 

 Minnesota, where there were over 3,000 members, with a so- 

 ciety where you would think in that forbidding region there 

 would not be anybody hardly, and there is great enthusiasm. 

 Going farther east you will find still greater enthusiasm. 

 You may visit the Wizard of the North, Professor Hansen. 

 He is working problems along the same lines. And we want 

 to push to the front. The girl that associates with the trees 

 and flowers in the world is going to be a lady, and the boy 



