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of doing anything better than anybody else. I do hot think the 

 idea ever entered his mind; he did not think of surpassing others, 

 but he thought to himself : What can I do to bring us all a little 

 nearer to the goal that we all have in view ? If there is any one that 

 feels moved by the spirit to say a word let him do it. 



Mr. A. J. Philips (Wis.) : As a resident of an adjoining 

 state I want to add just a word of tribute. I consider it an honor 

 as a horticulturist, as a friend of Mr. Harris and as a friend of Dr. 

 Lugger to say a word. I have thought since I came into this room 

 that if the arrangement of the services of this hour could have been 

 left with Mr. Harris he would have had it just as it is at this meet- 

 ing. I thought he would have placed his picture where it is now, 

 surrounded by an arch of evergreen, the emblem of immortality, 

 and all his old friends present. I think everything is just as he 

 would have liked to have had it. While you have expressed the feel- 

 ing of the great loss you have met as a society and individually, we 

 feel this loss no less on the other side of the river. When we wanted 

 a man to judge our fruit, who we thought would do it honestly and 

 with impartiality, we could think of no better man than Mr. Harris, 

 and we had him for years until he declined to serve any longer in 

 that capacity. 



Prof. Lugger often came over to our state. He was a social, 

 genial, whole-souled man as well as a man of great ability. I had 

 a black insect devastate my trees one year, and I described to him 

 what happened to my trees. Before I had concluded he said, "I 

 know what you mean ; I have got him here, I will show him to you." 

 He found him in the second drawer of his cabinet, the exact insect 

 that caused the trouble. In the death of these men we have met a 

 loss as well as you. 



Mr. O. F. Brand: I wish to say just one word in reference 

 to these old friends. Of course, anything we can say will not add to 

 or detract from their merits, and all we can say is in praise of their 

 noble characters. I liked all three of these men. Mr. Harris, Capt. 

 Cross and Dr. Lugger were all men that I admired. I knew Mr. 

 Harris since 1866, and I want to say of all three of them that what 

 they did they did well. 



Making a Windbreak. — "The trees to be used for a windbreak 

 should be planted only on the side from which the prevailing or in- 

 jurious winds blow, not entirely around the orchard. The kind of 

 trees used will depend on the character of the winds to be excluded, 

 the contour of the land and the kinds which thrive best in that par- 

 ticular section. If the wind is strong, but warm and moist, such 

 as that coming over a large body of water, the windbreak should be 

 of deciduous trees, such as maples, poplars and willows. The object 

 in this case should be to merely break the force of the wind, not to 

 keep it out of the orchard entirely, since it is injurious simply be- 

 cause it is strong-. 



