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SOUTH DAKOTA STATE HORT. SOC’Y, ANNUAL MEETING. 75 
H. W. Hinds as a protection or shade plant for small evergreens. When 
trimmed it makes a very handsome hedge. 
The secretary’s and treasurer’s reports were accepted as read, and 
adopted. 
Wednesday afternoon opened with a paper by B. F. Hines, of Beres- 
ford, on “Lawn Making,” flowering shrubs being the leading subject de- 
veloped. 
“The Farmer’s Garden and Orchard,” by W. B. White, of Olivet. 
Quite a discussion came up on grapes, Mr. Lathrop thinking a garden with- 
out grapes not to be thought of. Mr. Norby thought Madison too far 
north to grow grapes satisfactorily. .-This was cut short to hear a paper by 
John Grant, of Wessington, on “Springs in Garden and Orchard.” Several 
other papers on the same subject were read, when “Irrigation on Farm 
Lands,” by S. A. Cochrane, state engineer of irrigation, of Brookings, was 
explained in an able manner by him. 
“Farm Gardening on the Prairie,” by J. H. Berry, of Armour, and 
others. “‘Melon Culture” was treated by C. E. Fitch, of Alwilda. 
Thursday morning. Some papers were passed over to be published, and 
the fruit list was taken up and revised by districts, the state being divided 
into eleven districts. 
The place of holding the next annual meeting was named as Sioux 
Falls. The election of officers resulted in Mr. H. C. Warner, of Forestburg, 
president; L. R. Alderman, Hurley, vice president; Geo. H. Whiting, of 
Yankton, treasurer; Rev. E. D. Cowles, Vermillion, librarian; Prof. N. E. 
Hansen, Brookings, secretary. 
A vice president for each fruit district was appointed. 
A paper on “Commercial Orcharding in Turner County,” by L. R. Al- 
derman and “Fruit Culture in Southwestern Minnesota,” by your delegate, 
closed the proceedings. 
After adjournment your representative in company with Prof. Cochrane, 
conductor of the State Farmers’ Institute, and Mr. Himes, of Centerville, 
visited: the large apple orchard of Mrs. L. A. Alderman, near Hurley. This 
is an orchard of one hundred and ten acres of apples set out twelve years ago 
and is doing nicely. Her son, Mr. L. R. Alderman, conducts the business. 
He is a very competent and pleasant young man, who is making his mark 
as a fruit producer in the northwest. There is a block each of Duchess and 
Patten’s Greening, with a large field of Wealthy, that are especially fine and 
healthy. He tried some of the tender varieties, but as with others they are 
a failure. Here it is exemplified on a large scale that hardy apple trees 
grown in northern nurseries are doing well, while others are a failure. 
Mr. Alderman sorts his apples closely, and all those not up to grade 
go into a mill, and the cellar, forty feet long, full of barrels of pure cider 
vinegar, explains what he does with them. 
His strawberry field of four acres surrounded with ditches, and with 
water pipes laid from an elevated tank, holding about one hundred fifty bar- 
rels, is very fine. 
Mr. Alderman has, like most others, tried varieties not suited to his 
locality, and although he raised last year over twelve bushels of Snow apples, 
they are not a success by any means. 
