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gence or persistent application of good judgment and common sense. 

 Every horticulturist, small or great, makes mistakes. Notice these, 

 record them and seek to remedy at once ; don't go on in the same old 

 rut, wondering why you were so slow about your thinking. 



Look over the year's record and see wherein you can do better 

 next year. Improve every opportunity to forward next year's busi- 

 ness. Try to keep in advance of your work. If possible, drive the 

 work and not allow it to drive you. This should be the motto of 

 every horticulturist. 



Visit your most progressive neighbors often and take note of 

 what they are doing and how they do it. Exercise the greatest 

 caution and judgment in making all your purchases of food material 

 or machinery used in the home or on the farm, keeping this one 

 thought uppermost, "It is not the cheapest or those things farthest 

 fetched (often dearly bought) that always prove the most eco- 

 nomical." 



Very often it is the lack of intelligence in doing that is the 

 greatest drawback to success. Think and work and work and think 

 which is the most economical method of doing each and every duty 

 in the garden or the orchard or on the farm. Improve the most 

 opportune time to take advantage of the planting and management 

 of all crops raised. Lord Bacon said "the great secret of success in 

 life is to be ready when the opportunity comes." The real en- 

 joyment we get from doing all work well and seeing the fruits, 

 flowers, vegetables or grains make a splendid growth, is worth much 

 more to our real happiness than the dollars and cents we make from 

 what we raise. 



York Imperial apple : Has any one here had experience in grow- 

 ing this apple in Minnesota? H. E. VanDeman says it is almost as 

 productive as and of much better quality than the Ben Davis. If 

 hardy I think it would be profitable for commercial purposes. 



(Following the reading of the paper a show of hands was re- 

 quested of those producing seedling apples, to which twenty-three 

 responded in the affirmative.) 



Prof. C. B. Waldron (N. D.) : In regard to cut worms, the 

 preventive that Mr. Elliot mentions is a good one, but I think there 

 is a better one, and that is covering the ground with straw a year 

 previous to growing the seedlings. The first thing to be done is 

 to cover the ground to a depth of four or five inches with straw in 

 the latter part of May, after the weeds have started ; leave the straw 

 there until you want to sow the apple seeds in the fall and then burn 

 off the straw lying on the ground. The straw prevents the escape 

 of moisture during the summer and leaves the ground in a friable 

 condition. Burning off the straw will furnish the ashes the seed- 



