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Mr. Kydd: Did not you come to the conclusion that it was the 

 weather more than it was the mixture? 



A. It depends on the weather whether the Bordeaux has a bad effect. 

 If it is bad weather the russeting will be worse. 



Q. Did you at the same time spray with lime-sulphur? 



A, Yes, sir. 



Q. And no bad effects? 



A. No, sir. 



Chairman: While this discussion is extremely interesting, we have 

 some other topics on the program and we do not want to cut out these 

 other fellows. They have a whole lot of oratory that we do not want 

 to cut out. The think that we all like is a practical fellow, a man who 

 has accomplished some good results. We are pleased to have with us 

 1 0-day one of our big orchard fellows who piles up his great big pile 

 of dollars, and that is what counts — Mr. Henry C. Smith, a horticulturist 

 and fruit farmer of Falls City, who will now tell us how to grow apples. 



Mr. Smith spoke as follows: 



HOW WE GROW APPLES. 



HENRY C. SMITH, FALLS CITY. 



I do not know what I am going to say, did not when I started up 

 here, so what I say will be without order or connection. In Illinois, 

 where I was born, lived a family by the name of Ingersoll. Robert G. 

 used to come there. How I used to admire his deliberation and cool- 

 ness, accompanied by his eloquence. Wished I possessed a small share 

 of it at this time, enough at least to be at home. If you had told me 

 a few years ago that I would talk to you on the growing of apples I 

 would probably have been as much surprised as you may be. Unlike 

 some professors, who believe any one can grow apples, I have found 

 out long ago that you cannot make Luther Burbanks out of every one 

 who plants fruit trees. 



Well you want to know how we grow apples, that is, "The Forest Hill 

 Fruit Farm." 



I was not very old when I found that to make any business a success 

 it had to have special attention and that one man could not learn it all. 

 In the first place, that is to say, to be successful in any one line, in the 

 growing of apples as well as anything else, a person must be interested 

 in what he is doing. I believe this is essential with all people who 

 succeed in any walk of life. 



When a little boy I used to play in my grandmother's flower garden. 

 To me it was laid out very beautifully, with the beds arranged in colors, 

 the grass was kept mowed, the borders of the flower beds were kept 

 sheared, not a spear of hay or straw in the yard. I used to play there 

 and it seems to me now, there was nothing more beautiful, so I early 

 had a liking for the beautiful in nature. 



I have planted many trees in my lifetime, probably 100,000, and to-day 



