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in abundance. That time will come as soon as the people recognize 

 the fact that it is the right variety and the right method and at- 

 tention is needed ; then we will get people interested, and they will 

 know that they can accomplish something. By way of illustration I 

 will say that I am publishing a little newspaper out there, and I am 

 preaching horticulture a good deal, and some of my subscribers think 

 I am wasting their time in reading about horticulture and growing 

 apple trees, because they have proven by experience that horticulture 

 is impracticable in that section of country. But by keeping everlast- 

 ingly at it I have succeeded in getting some of the old farmers in- 

 terested, and many who are readers of my newspaper are beginning 

 to inquire where they can get literature pertaining to horticulture, 

 and asking for the list that the horticultural society recommends, 

 and they are inquiring how they shall plant and care for an orchard, 

 and the result is that a number of people are planting trees. 



I wish to thank you for your kind invitation to speak to you and 

 for the attention you have given me, and I will simply say in closing 

 ■that horticulture is marching on to the northwest and it is not going 

 to stop in Sanborn county and the eastern part of South Dakota. I 

 thank you. (Applause.) 



Mr. Geo. J. Kellogg (Wis.) : Those men out there who have 

 got the soil, the push and the energy will grow apples. The success 

 in growing apples is more in the man than in the soil. 



SUCCESSFUL HARVESTING AND MARKETING FROM 

 THE COMMERCIAL ORCHARD. 



W. C. CORBETT, MINNEAPOLIS. 



The theme assigned me carries with it the suggestion that the 

 first important means of success depends on the orchardist. One 

 whose heart is not in the work can never succeed ; the successful 

 grower must love his work, and with loving care watch, protect and 

 assist nature. The coming of nature's caster, the awakening to new life 

 of the dormant tree, the assuming of renewed color in bark and twig, 

 the swelling of the bud, the bursting forth of fragrant blossom, the 

 setting of the fruit, all must be a joy and a pride to this lover of 

 nature, the successful orchardist. But with this awakening there" 

 comes another, a farther awakening : the insect which preys on the 

 coming fruit, the parasite fungus which saps its vigor and prevents 

 the development of perfect fruit also warms into life. In the Ozarks, 

 up the Kansas River and along the Missouri are probably the greater 

 number of large orchards. In Massachusetts I know of but one, 

 Mr. Clarke, of So. Hadley, is the marked exception. A theorist and 

 a practical grower — his twenty-five acre orchard is a model. Its 



