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developed a valuable industry in a place that w^as considered 

 utterly useless for any purpose. 



In these days of close competition, the margins are so 

 often in the incidentals. When timbered lands cost almost 

 nothing a large part of the timber could be wasted in sawdust, 

 the trimmings of the logs could be burned up in heaps of 

 debris; but now when the stumpage is so high, the lumberman 

 must reduce the waste in sawdust to a minimum, and then it 

 must not be wasted but used as fuel. All of the poorest parts 

 of the logs are either held for wood or wood-pulp, and so 

 nothing is lost and really the margins of the business lie in the 

 careful using of what was once the waste. 



The other day a friend of mine visited with me our church 

 edifice, looking over the place to see if there was anything 

 needed in the way of repairs. He is a furniture manufacturer; 

 he has engines and boilers and an extensive heating apparatus, 

 and one of the things he noticed in the church was that the 

 main pipes carrying the steam from the engine room to the 

 auditorium were perfectly bare. He said these should be felted 

 at once, and I asked why. "Because you are losing so much 

 heat. Why, if we were so extravagant as this with the heat in 

 our furniture establishment, we could not be in the business," 

 illustrating to me forcibly the importance of economies in the 

 details. In no occupation in the world are these economies so 

 apparent or so important as in the prosecution of horticulture. 



If I read the signs of the times aright, we must grasp, in 

 the right way, the most important levers of success; we must 

 grasp them with no uncertain movement. The horticulture 

 of to-day is upon a higher level than it was a few years ago. 

 Our horizon is a wider one, and we must recognize this. It 

 is well to have one's ear to the ground, but it is better to have 

 his eye toward the horizon. With the wider vision comes a 

 greater responsibility and greater need of knowledge and greater 

 intensity of action. With the progress must come a growing 

 respect for the products that we grow. In many southern 

 towns to-day the tomatoes are brought in loose in wagons and 

 one can see them upon the markets, the juices dripping 

 through to the ground. There are places in which the finest 

 apples are thrown into the lumber wagon and jolted of? to the 



