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that that is more seeming than real, because with the more 

 stocky branches that you grow by that method, I think they 

 would perhaps resist the snow more than a wide-spreading tree. 

 I say to you frankly that where you are troubled with these deep 

 snows, I would head higher than I would in my State, where 

 we have less snow. 



President Twitchell : During the past few years the State 

 has purchased a farm in the town of Monmouth. It has been my 

 good fortune to spend six or seven months yearly within a mile 

 of that farm and know what the workers were doing there. I 

 believe the State has been extremely fortunate in the man it has 

 placed there as horticulturist. He comes to us with earnest 

 and honest desire to do the very best he can for that farm, for 

 the proving out of the great problems which now confront us. 

 It gives me pleasure to present to you Professor Bonus, Horti- 

 culturist at the Agricultural Experiment Station, who is now 

 to speak to you along the line of the work which he has been 

 carrying forward on the farm at Monmouth. 



