secuetary's report. 109 



Pippins, Spitzenbergs and such apples. Where do these apples go? Right 

 past your door to Boston and New York. 



Now, I think you have listened long enough to my rambling remarks 

 and ] hope I have enthused you. I want to get the young boys and 

 girls to make up their minds to do better work. I was asked the 

 question some time ago: Are the boys and girls an improvement on 

 their fathers and mothers? Everything else is improving, horses, cattle 

 and machinery, but the boys and girls are the only things that are 

 standing still. 



Chairman: I believe we all have appreciated the remarks of Mr. 

 Kydd and I believe many of us will profit by them. I believe in this I 

 am expressing the sentiment of the entire Horticultural Society. 



Mr. HofMann: What variety of cow-peas do you use in Canada? 



Mr. Kydd: We use the New Era, 



Mr. HofMann: Do you use them for forage crops? 



Mr. Kydd: No, we turn them under in the spring. 



Mr. HofMann: How early do you plant the cow-peas? 



Mr. Kydd: Early in June. Possibly in this country you would have 

 to plant them earlier. 



Chairman: The next thing on our program is the Secretary's report, 

 which we will now have. 



Secretary Marshall read his report as follows: 



SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



The season of 1910 did not produce results to make the horticulturists 

 of Nebraska very enthusiastic in general over the state. The fall and 

 early winter weather preceding was the most disastrous with which 

 the nurserymen and fruit growers have had to contend for a number 

 of years. Warm weather with an excessive amount of rainfall pre- 

 vailed during the last half of November and the early part of December. 

 There was then a sudden drop in the temperature, accompanied by 

 heavy snow. The wet warm weather left the trees and plants in a condition 

 more easily injured by the severe freezing and much damage resulted. 

 Peach trees of all ages were killed outright in practically all of the 

 state except the southeast corner. Much damage was also done to other 

 trees and plants inclined to be the least bit tender, the nurserymen of 

 the state losing quite heavily of young stock in the nursery rows. 



Then the spring of 1910 was another source of grief to the horti- 

 culturists. After exceptionally warm weather in March and early April, 

 bringing trees into blossom from two to three weeks earlier than usual, 

 several days of trying weather for the buds and blossoms prevailed. 

 The temperature dropped to several degrees below freezing several 

 times and a high northwest wind prevailed, killing the blossoms of 

 apples, cherries and plums, except in the southeastern part of the state 

 and in protected orchards outside of this area. 



