Id our work at the (yolleg'e avc divide our courses into 

 two general classes. The first are those courses which we 

 term cultural courses and which are supposed to aid a man 

 generally, to make him a better citizen, to teach him to use 

 better English and things of that kind. Then we have 'what 

 we cair our technical courses which help him to be a better 

 poultryman, a better fruit grower or a better dairyman. 

 Now I think the talk I am going to give you this morning 

 will be a "cultural" talk. I do not think that I will- tell 

 you much that you can take home to your farms and put to 

 any practical use but I do hope that perhaps it may be of 

 ijiterest and not too tiresome and that while it is going on 

 you will perhaps get some ideas that willgive you a better 

 understanding of the fruit situation in the country, and per- 

 haps give you a little renewed courage in pushing ahead in 

 the M^ork. 



I might say just a word aboiit my trip in general. We 

 liave a pleasant custom at our institution Avhen a man has 

 been there stjven years (and they have stood him as long as 

 they can) they let him of£ for six months or a year to go 

 away and learn something that is worth while. So this 

 \ear it came around to my time to get oflp. T had planned to 

 go acrovss the Pond and see the other side but circumstances 

 prevented that, of course, and so I decided to "see America 

 first." I think it might perhaps be interesting to some of 

 yon to tell you something about the sightseeing side and 

 social side of the trip, which to me was decidedly pleasant, 

 but I am not going to do that. I am just going to outline 

 the trip briefly so that you may see where we went and get 

 some idea of the places we visited. 



We went West, stopping at Niagara Falls and Chicago 

 for sightseeing. Then visited in Kansas, my old home, and 

 next spent two months in the Rocky Mountains, in Estes 

 National Park. We were in a cabin seven miles from a gro- 

 cery store and two miles and a half from a postoffice, right 

 out in the wilds. If you drove in to our cabin, when you 

 wanted to go out again you had to go out the same way. 



