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Mr. Rasmussen : Yes, sir, try to keep them covered, and you 

 will find out you will not lose the foliage. It is a preventive, you 

 get it on before the trouble starts. 



A Member : Put the arsenate of lead in with it on the rose 

 bushes? 



Mr. Rasmussen: Yes, sir, it is not necessary to, but we 

 always mix it and the expense is so little we have the arsenate 

 all the time. 



Mr. Underwood : There was a question asked whether there 

 is any danger of the spray poisoning anything. We have tried 

 to mow our orchard with sheep and have sixty or seventy-five 

 sheep running in our orchard for the purpose of keeping down 

 the grass. We have sprayed our orchard four times and never 

 saw any symptoms of the sheep being affected at all. 



A Member : I will say that I have been raising apples and 

 had calves in the same orchard, and I raised a crop of apples and 

 a crop of calves in the same field. 



Annual Meeting, 1916, N. E. Iowa Horticultural Society. 



R. E. OLM STEAD, EXCELSIOR, DELEGATE. 



The Northeastern Iowa Horticultural Society met in their 

 32nd annual meeting at Oelwein, November 15th and 16th. The 

 officers of the society were all present, and the meeting opened 

 as scheduled. The exhibition of fruit was very good, about 300 

 plates of apples being shown. Considering the season this was 

 a very good display, in fact some of the fruit was very fine. 

 The meetings for both days were especially profitable for one 

 interested in horticultural work. The people of Oelwein did 

 not attend the sessions very much. Mr. Geo. G. Platte had 

 done some fine work in Oelwein in soliciting members to the 

 association, securing some forty or fifty members. The papers 

 and addresses on the whole were very excellent in character, 

 and each one showed thought and study. 



Holding the meetings at different cities and towns is prob- 

 ably a good piece of missionary work, as the tendency is to 

 create an interest in the study and work in horticulture in each 

 town in which the society meets. For those reasons it is doubt- 

 less a wise provision made whereby the society meets in different 

 towns in its section of the state. 



With twenty or thirty good, live horticulturists in session 



