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leading horticulturists was, you can depend on the Austrian 

 Pine. The blue Spruce is all right for ornamental planting. 

 The next is the Blue Fir, that is a fine hardy tree. 



Mr. Christy: There is the importance of this meeting, to 

 get at the thing we want to plant. You can get your money 

 back but never get your time back, and the fact we ought not 

 to plant an uncertain tree is worth much to us. The Austrian 

 Pine is the surest Pine. 



Mr. Harrison : I planted those along the line of my farm at 

 York, and that was the grasshopper year, and we had some hot 

 winds and the grasshoppers combined, and their was not a 

 Scotch Pine left. 



Mr. Beltzer: In behalf of the Black Pine, I want to say, 

 of all the Pines that stood the climate and came out whole, it is 

 the Austrain or Black Pine. 



FRUIT FOR THE HOME. 



BY G. A. MARSHALL. 



Mr. President: I did not prepare any paper. In the first 

 place I did not have time. In the second place I did not know 

 what phase of the subject you wished discussed, but after talk- 

 ing with the the program committee I got an idea of what they 

 wanted. They wanted us to talk about the value of the Nebraska 

 farm. The idea being that we were to discuss the value of the 

 Nebraska farm as a home, and what we needed in that home in 

 order to make it the home that it should be. Now that is a 

 good subject and I wish I could do it justice, because the future 

 of America depends on the rural home in America, and when 

 we look over the state or over the United States, we read- 

 ily see that we are gradually undergoing a change. Go East 

 in the worn out districts and see the farm homes there in 

 a run down condition, with almost a hopeless future, because 

 of the land being completely worthless and producing nothing 

 unless commercial fertilizer is constantly applied. There, when 



