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sites; among them trimming, righting insect enemies and proper 

 packages for delivering fruit. Prominent mention was made of 

 preliminary efforts in the direction of forestry in Iowa; of the 

 "Wealthy apple fund," and words of kind remembrance of Messrs. 

 Gardner, Speer and Dartt, who were not able to be present because 

 of physical infirmities. 



Messrs. Eugene Secor, C. G. Patten, C. H. True, A. E. Bentz, 

 G. A. Ivens and Clarence Wedge in their usual quiet manner gave 

 their candid suggestions and advice on "The Coming Winter Ap- 

 ple," "Care of Nursery and Orchard," "Traps and Spraying," 

 "Small Fruit Lot," "Grape Growing," and "The Austrian Pine," 

 as follows: Malinda, N. W. Greening and Walbridge recom- 

 mended; clearly revealing the necessity of far better care on the 

 part of nurseryman and farmer; illustrated by trap for moths; traps 

 versus spraying; tree paint, and its merits, as claimed by J. W. 

 Flackler, of Ely; persistent watchfulness and cultivation; distant 

 rooting of runners give the weakest plants; strong defense of grape 

 culture, notwithstanding the cheap price of eastern raised grapes; 

 giving a concise history of the merits of the Austrian pine in con- 

 trast with other pines in southern Minnesota. 



Of course, when J. S. Trigg, Edson Gaylord, W. H. Guil- 

 ford, W. A. Burnap, J. R. Waller and "Apple Tree" Barnes get 

 the floor on "Orchard Enemies," "Improved Methods," "Market- 

 ing Fruits," "Horticultural Stumbling Blocks," "Ideal Garden," 

 and "Barnes' Address" you may look for "rattling of the dry 

 bones," and some instructive music by the "horticultural band:" 

 Remedies and preventatives against enemies ; white wire netting ; 

 wood protectors; thick planting on southwest; don't pasture; no 

 blue grass; mulching; cultivation; poisoning rabbits; and currant 

 bushes on the southwest, or towards 2 o'clock sun ; northeast 

 location; no protection; hardy roots; head and graft toward the 2 

 o'clock sun. 



Let birds have poor, wormy cherries; cut stems of fruit when 

 picking; several pickings; and plant more cherry trees to stand 

 off the birds. 



Lack of faith; want of action; wrong location; wrong varieties; 

 wrong handling and planting; wrong cultivation; pruning; protec- 

 tion and marketing. 



Rows straight and long for cultivation; yearly manuring: hang 

 tomato vines in window for ripening; and shoot poultry depredators 

 as wild game. 



Received gold medal at Buffalo; spray three times; thin apples; 

 alternate rows of different kinds of trees; dynamite the ground 



