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ticulture. New things springing into existence ; things that were 

 problematical before are fixed facts now ; complaining about the 

 farmer's orchards being an emergency hospital for mare and colt, 

 cow and calf, sow and pigs, and orchards a failure ; encouraging 

 local societies, the. state to supply literature but to extend no 

 further aid. 



C. F. Gardner, Osage, read a paper on plums. He had sent 

 some promising seedlings to our secretary, A. W. Latham : 

 expected good results from crossing Japan and domestic plums: 

 was confident plums were soon coming adapted to our soil and 

 climate. 



C. H. True reported a failure in nearly all kinds of fruit, the 

 causes being unfavorable weather, fungi, coddling moth, curculio 

 and canker worms; trees dropping their fruit when half matured, 

 but what apples there were left in fair condition sold at one dol- 

 lar per bushel : the Dunlap strawberry getting to the front, still 

 the Clyde and Warfield did not disappoint the grower; Snyder 

 blackberries fair; the Haymaker and Cardinal raspberries good 

 at Ames. 



G. A. Ivins, Iowa Falls, stated that the crop of apples was 

 short but stayed good on the trees : Wealthy a poor crop but in 

 some localities better than in others ; in general raspberries wer€ 

 good, such as Cumberland, Kansas and Columbian ; strawberries 

 poor, but a seedling of his called "Long Jointer" was good. 



E. Blackman, Decorah. had faith in apples, reported peaches, 

 pears and plums a failure, raspberries and strawberries good; 

 recommended to encourage people living in town to plant more 

 trees and shrubs to beautify their homes. ' Secretary Wesley 

 Greene stated he did not think the Rambler rose perfectly hardy 

 but recommended the Prairie Queen and Dorothy Perkins ; peo- 

 ple should go to the greenhouses and get hybrid tea roses, and 

 they would have roses all summer; the rugosa recommended 

 for lawn or hedge — for the latter plant one foot apart ; the new 

 Century rose was spoken well of. Prof. Greene also stated that 

 in regard to our future strawberry we should have in mind the 

 good keeping quality of the old Wilson berry, which is better 

 the second after it is picked. He also warned against planting 

 strawberries on the same ground year after year on account of 

 insects. 



The display of apples was as good as could be expected at 

 that time of the year. There was in all about one hundred 

 plates. A seedling exhibit by Mr. Patten, consisting of about 

 thirty plates of apples, was inte-esting. Each plate was- lalieled 



