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sumer. Studies have shown that removal of field heat close to the place of 

 production is imperative. The farm cold storage and large cooperative cold 

 storages are the result. Hydro-cooling is receiving new attention, in which 

 packed fruit is flooded with ice water as it comes in packages from the packing 

 plant. Sour cherries are being placed in tanks of cold water at the farm and 

 transported experimentally by tank truck to the processing plant, thus re- 

 ducing both handling costs and fruit temperature at one swoop. Revolutionary 

 thinking involves mechanical harvesters — even going so far as to think of 

 tree defoliants which will leave the fruit for some sort of mechanical har- 

 vester. 



Since the shortage of labor is the major problem on American farms, every 

 conceivable gadget has been introduced to effect efficiency. Pneumatic 

 pruners and hydraulic pruning and harvesting platforms have shown their 

 worth. A strawberry-planting machine will set 25 acres of strawberries in a 

 day. In the pruning of black raspberries a vertical and a horizontal power 

 mower has been devised which hacks the plants into control most brutally, 

 but most efficiently. It will be interesting to see what progress the fruit grower, 

 the agricultural engineer, and the manufacturer will make in these directions 

 in the next few years. 



THE ART AND HOME SIDE OF HORTICULTURE 



It is the art and home side of Horticulture that at the moment is crying for 

 attention. We become so involved in the biological and the affairs side that 

 we overlook the one that is likely to be the most important in the years im- 

 mediately ahead. As Dr. Crow of Canada once said: "... horticultural sci- 

 ence could make no greater mistake than to underestimate the importance of 

 Horticulture at large to the amateur and his special interests." 



Abraham Cowley in his essay on "The Garden" explained the esteem in 

 which gardening should be held by reminding us that: "The three first men 

 in the world were a gardener, a ploughman, and a grazier; and if any man 

 object, that the second of these was a Murtherer, I desire he would consider, 

 that as soon as he was so, he quitted our Profession, and turn'd Builder." 



Or the remarks of Francis Bacon: "God Almighty planted a garden; and 

 indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refinement of the 

 spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks; 

 and a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men 

 come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the 

 greater perfection." 



L. H. Bailey has written: "Every generation sees some great addition to 

 the depth and meaning of the home. . . . Every perfect home has its library; 

 so in turn it must have its garden — a room, perhaps out-of-doors, in which 

 plants grow. . . . One third of our city and village improvement is Horti- 



