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men. Do you want to deprive them of these blessings which are 

 in our power to bestow upon them ? 



Mr. Allyn thought if "the cream and the horse" were taken 

 from the farm there would be very little left. It was where 

 people gave most attention to the pig and the horse that horti- 

 <;ulture was coming forward — in other words, the luxuries of 

 life. If farmers would continue to prosper they must have the 

 <}0w; thousands were needed where very few were now to be 

 found. There was no industry in the state so important as the 

 live stock industry. A farmer planting the strawberries might 

 get something and he might not. Prof. Gregg was doing a work 

 that the state had need to be proud of. Too much was said on 

 this fruit question and too little on that of vegetables. He had 

 been here now three days and hadn't had a chance to put even a 

 beet into the department. (Laughter). 



Mr. Pearse. Mr. Gregg is a first-class man; I esteem him 

 highly. I will give him all the time; but I will take my dozen 

 men and women and go into a separate room with them, to teach 

 horticulture. I have done it time and again and it interferes 

 with nobody. 



Mr. Barrett. The idea that we horticulturists are opposed to 

 the cow, the hog and the horse is ridiculous, it seems to me. We 

 are as earnest as anybody else. Take, for instance, the subject 

 of forestry; how can you make the improvements you require in 

 regard to your stock unless you liave forests ? The people up 

 north are wide awake for improved stock, but they neglect the 

 forest. You can't very well dove-tail this in with farmers' insti- 

 tutes and do the subject full justice. 



REMARKS OF MR. SMITH. 



Mr. Smith. Mr. President, I think there is some misunder- 

 standing as to this question. I am in sympathy with the object 

 presented in the resolution. I have attended many institutes, 

 and I have urged the horticultural part of the work with all 

 the ability I could bring to bear upon the question. It has not 

 received that share of attention that I thought the subject 

 deserved, but I fail to see wherein the resolution offered would 

 help the matter particularly. If horticulture has not received its 

 fair share of time in the work of the institute it has been largely 

 the fault of horticulturists themselves. It is true the farmers do 

 not show that degree of interest in horticulture they ought to, 

 and as Mr. Barrett says, they give more attention to the talk 

 about the horse, the cow and the pig. 



