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The President — Near Cranberry, southwest of Asheville. I hope 

 in time we will have some publications from Tucson on this matter of 

 evaporation which will throw some considerable light on this subject. I 

 cannot understand how it is that nature overloads the trees with moisture 

 in the winter time. It reminds me, while this matter is being discussed, 

 of a man up in a little town who went by the name of Uncle Jabez, his 

 name being Jabez Jones. He was like these trees which the winter 

 affects — occasionally he would get overloaded with moisture, alcoholic 

 moisture-^and one day he came out and he evidently had too heavy a 

 load on, and someone says, "Uncle Jabez, you are overloaded to-day," 

 and with a twinkle in his eye, he said, "Yes, I would better have made 

 two trips!" (Laughter). Now, Mr. Munson, let us hear about "Resistance 

 to Cold, Heat, Wet, Drought, Soils, etc., in Grapes." 



