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Church, of St. Paul. Mrs. Jewett, three sons and two daughters 

 survive him. Of the sons, Charles F. lives at Corning, California ; 

 Edmund G., at Lowell. Washington ; Frank F. is a lieutenant in 

 the regular army, serving in the Philippines. One daughter, Mary 

 L. Jewett, lives in St. Paul, and the other is Mrs. Ernest F. Mc- 

 Gregar, of Avon, Connecticut. 



In the death of Captain Jewett the society loses one of its most 

 ardent and useful supporters, a practical horticulturist with long 

 experience, a man of unusual discernment and good judgment, and 

 ready sympathy. Mr. Jewett's position, ever since he became a 

 member of this society, in the auditor's office at the state capitol, 

 made it possible for him to serve the society to great advantage 

 in many ways, and he was ever most ready to render this assistance 

 whenever called upon. Some of the finest exhibits of fruit made 

 by the society came from the earnest work of Mr. Jewett. His 

 enthusiasm was easily passed on to others, and in a multitude of 

 ways he was of much practical assistance to the society. Mr. 

 Jewett became a life member of the society in the year 1900, com- 

 ing in as an annual member a number of years preceding. His 

 removal from our midst will be felt as a personal loss by his large 

 circle of friends in the association. — Secv. 



PRACTICAL RESULTS FROM SPRAYING. 



C. H. TRUE/ EDGEWOOD, lA. 



Any means which tends to increase the profits of our orchards 

 and fruit fields is most certainly worthy of consideration by such 

 a large body of fruit-loving people as are here assembled in the 

 fortieth session of what perhaps is the largest and most influential 

 horticultural society in the union of states. We all understand that 

 many details enter into the practice of successful orcharding, but 

 it is my province to discuss only one of those things, and that one 

 I consider of equal importance to, or even greater importance than, 

 any other. Our leading horticulturists have almost ceased to dis- 

 cuss the question, "does it pay to spray ?", but rather, in the emphatic 

 language of Prof. S. A. Beach and Sec'y Wesley Greene, where, at 

 the late meeting of the Northeastern Iowa Horticultural Society, 

 they declare, almost with one voice, we must spray. 



I do not purpose to refer especially to what others may have 

 said and done in the matter of spraying, but rather to speak of 

 some of the results of my own experience during the past six years 

 in particular. Some three years ago a neighbor brought to me a 



