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blast, and in one month the fruit of all our labor was gone." Thar 

 is something worse tlian we have, and so I think we should think 

 of the discouragements others have and be thankful that ours are 

 not as bad. 



The Chairman : It is something nice to know how they aro 

 getting along in other places. There is considerable truth in wIim . 

 Mr. Higbee said. Now I am going to call on Mr. Johnson. 



Mr. A. A. Johnson: I have only a few words I would 

 like to say. I was induced to become an annual member of this 

 society by a man by the name of Richardson, whom you doubtless 

 all know, and who intended to be present at the meeting, but 

 was prevented on account of weakness and failing health. I have 

 known Mr. Richardson for a long time, and he has always urged 

 me to attend these meetings. I have been wanting to attend for 

 the last seven or eight years, and this year I determined I would 

 come, and I have been so well pleased that I have taken out a life 

 membership. My first impression and the first question that came 

 to my mind was, where are the old boys I met here when I was 

 here a number of years ago? I was a comparatively young man 

 then, and today when I saw the students from the agricultural 

 school sitting in these seats I could scarcely see any of the older 

 men, and I thought this must be a young people's meeting, but after 

 listening to the papers and discussions in which a good many of 

 those young people took part I had to admit fhat it was way ahead 

 of anything I had heard before. When I saw those pictures over 

 there of the old members I thought of all the good they had done 

 and of the inspiration tliey had afforded us, and although some of 

 them have gone over the river there are still some of them left, and 

 there are others following in their footsteps that will fill their 

 places, and this work will still go upward and onward and forward. 

 (Applause.) 



The Chairman : Those were very inspiring words and we were 

 glad to hear them. Now I am going to call upon our friend with- 

 out whom a meeting would seem incomplete. Prof. Hansen. 



Prof. N. E. Hansen (S. D.) : The possibility of one apple! 

 Mr. Elliot gave me this apple I hold in my hand. One seed from 

 that apple may produce the tree that will bear the apple that we 

 want, hardy and in every way desirable, and in a few years every 

 farm home in the state may have an orchard coming from that one 

 seed. That is the possibility of one little apple seed. Near Boston, 

 at Concord, Massachusetts, there is one old grapevine, the original 

 Concord vine, the second generation from the wild. It is protected 

 and surrounded by an iron fence, and from that one vine has been 

 disseminated almost throughout the world the standard grape of 

 this country. So the possibilities of this one seed are something 

 that we cannot realize. (Applause.) 



.The Chairman : This part of the meeting would not be com- 

 plete without a few words from Mr. Elliot. Mr. Elliot, let us hear 

 from vou. 



