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horticulture, but did not materialize in the shape of a protest at 

 the last. 



The secretary in his report recommended a law to regulate 

 the sale of nursery stock, and evidently the Iowa people are going- 

 through something the same experience that we have in Minne- 

 sota over this problem. We hope they may find a legal way to 

 right some of the objectionable features of the present method of 

 disposing of nursery stock. 



P. F. Kinne talked of "Timber and the Windbreak." He placed 

 green ash first as of most value, and recommended planting 4 by 

 4 feet, 2,700 trees to the acre, mixing in other varieties however, 

 to be thinned out within ten years for fuel. Such a growth would 

 attain a height of thirty-five feet in seventeen years. In the dis- 

 cussion it developed that the catalpa and red cedar are not always 

 found hardy in Iowa, and those experienced in the matter recom- 

 mended getting seed from the north. 



Silas Wilson, in a paper on "Renewing the Vineyards," recom- 

 mended planting vines of the Concord group, in holes two feet 

 wide, dug in the bottom of deep furrows, to get the roots well 

 down for winter protection. Mr. Wilson urged re-planting of vine- 

 yards killed in 1898 and 1899. A use for grapes of special value, 

 the making of unfermented wine, was referred to, and Mr. G. B. 

 Brackett, the U. S. Pomologist, stated that in its manufacture grape 

 juice should not be heated above 160 degrees, heating to the boil- 

 ing point killing the quality. 



Seasonable notes by J. R. Sage, director of the Iowa Weather 

 Service, contained the important fact that in the late drought less 

 suffering was experienced in the lee of a grove or hill under clean 

 culture and in fields that were under-drained with tile. Time here 

 forbids enlarging on the above vitally important facts. 



W. M. Bomberger, in a paper on forestry and orcharding, stated 

 that fruits succeeded better surrounded by a belt of evergreen, 

 evidently laying considerable stress on the fact of their resinous 

 qualities, their nearness also being a source of production to the 

 orchard. He recommended planting of fruit trees and evergreens 

 in alternate rows. 



Peach growing in central Iowa is becoming a financial suc- 

 cess on the part of the few who are giving it attention. A paper 

 by M. J. Graham suggested cutting young peach trees back to two 

 feet when planted, and planting in the fall and covering with earth ; 

 the next fall cutting back, and cutting back each fall after fruit- 

 ing. Much was said about varieties, but my notes on this point 



