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the finest climate, the finest soil, and perspective views, and landscape 

 views, and in giving this advice to start I want them to start right; I 

 have had lots of advice given mc and I have planted hundreds of thou- 

 sands of trees that are not worth a cent. If forests are started it is 

 a grand thing and there is no danger of running it to the extreme if 

 you get the right kind of trees. The box-elder tree will die in about 

 forty years of old age. I have planted cottonwood trees and sawed 

 boards out of them fifteen inches wide and those boards are just as 

 good as this poplar. We have sawed yellow cottonwood trees planted 

 forty years ago and sawed the lumber and made a house out of it. 



Chairman: We always listen with a great deal of pleasure to these 

 pioneer men, men who have been through the mill, and Mr. Pollard is 

 one man who has taken poor prairie and made a beautiful home out of 

 it, and many of us have seen it. We are proud of our pioneers and we 

 like to have them give their information and experience. It inspires us 

 along these lines we are seeking more knowledge on. Many mistakes 

 were made by many of the earlier planters and many of those mistakes 

 may be avoided by taking the advice of these pioneers. 



Mr. Youngers: I heartily agree with Mr. Pollard that in the earlier 

 days mistakes were made, and I think right now is the time we want 

 ■to have it understood that all parts of the state are not adapted to trees 

 like those in the locality where Mr. Pollard lives. While there are 

 trees^ and varieties that will thrive with him, if planted in the western 

 part of the state they would not thrive at all. It is well enough for the 

 planters throughout the state to look around and see what will thrive, 

 whether we want to plant them for wood lots, for timber or for posts. 

 Now, in Mr. Pollard's section of the state the white pine is a most excel- 

 lent tree, and with us we say it is a failure. In starting right it is 

 well enough to find out what will succeed in the locality in which you 

 live, and in that way we can succeed and avoid the failures that Mr. 

 Pollard and myself have made in the earlier days. 



Chairman: At this time I will call upon Mr. Tanner, who is, I 

 believe, the delegate from the Iowa Horticultural Society. 



REPORT FROM IOWA DELEGATE. 



T. C. TANNER, PAI.O, IOWA. 



As a delegate from Iowa I will have to report almost an entire 

 failure of fruit in 1910, owing to a very peculiar season. The early 

 fall of 1909 was rather dry, followed by rain and very warm weather 

 that started the sap in the trees and shrubbery; then came the sudden 

 freeze in October that killed a great many of the more tender varieties 

 of fruits and ornamentals, which was followed by a deep snow in 

 November and what we call a mild winter, the snow remaining until 

 February, when the weather turned warm, and as there was no frost 

 In the ground, the snow melted and all went into the ground, leaving 

 it in ideal condition for fruits and all kinds of crops. Through March 



