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society for the cordial manner in which I have been received here. 
I have been especially interested in the discussion that you have 
had this afternoon. I believe your success in apple growing will 
be right along that line. I do not know how long it will take, I 
do not know how many difficulties will interpose between us and 
success, but I believe success is at the other end of the line. 
Furthermore, I want to say that you must get a hustle on you or 
Iowa will get that thousand dollar premium. I want to make an 
agreement with you, that for every desirable seedling that you will 
send down to northeastern Iowa, we will send you a desirable seed- 
ling back. (Applause.) 
I want to say a word in addition to what Mr. Sherman said this 
morning. As a member of the Northeastern Iowa Society I want 
to thank you for the action you took in regard to Mr. Patten this 
morning. I think that is one of the cases where you builded better 
than you knew. Knowing Mr. Patten as closely as I do, and know- 
ing that with him money is always a secondary consideration, and 
knowing his sensitive feeling as regards his work, I believe this 
action taken by the society will come to him with a very great pleas- 
ure, and in his name and in the name of the society I thank you for 
it. 
Prof. Green: I had the pleasure of spending parts of three days 
with Luther Burbank, and in talking over the crosses he said this: 
that formerly he made many crosses in order to get variations, but 
continuing this work over a long series of years he found most of 
the stock grown on his ground is mixed; so he resorted to hand 
crossing and keeps the true seedlings from his cross stock, from 
which he gets the best result two or three generations from the 
crosses. Many of his best seedlings are the result of careful hand 
made crosses. Now he largely depends upon the work of insects. 
He started with hand crossed seedlings, the work of insects and so 
on and crosses things as much as he can. There is practically no 
certainty in the matter of seedling plants, and they do this crossing 
so as to get them mixed up and raise an immense number of seed- 
lings to select from. 
Mr. Sherman: He depends upon cross fertilization to get varia- 
tion? 
Prot, Greenz— Thatus it exactly, 
Mr. Harris: Mr. Gideon’s practice was to mix everything to- 
gether, but we still lacked something to keep all winter, and he 
proposed to try to get some of these things in the south where both 
would mature, where he could get them fertilized that way. 
