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enee being that our furrows are b?*oadest up and down while theirs are 

 broadest horizontally. Another difference is we don't have to kick be- 

 cause our ground gets too dry for our stuff to grow if we happen to 

 be without rain for a month or two. Our soil is fine on the surface 

 and does not dry out. Well prepared soil and intelligent cultivation 

 beats good luck and the cut and cover process, even with weekly 

 showers, "all to death" for making anything grow in this country. 

 Many buy their " model orchards," " glove-pruned budded trees," and 

 go through the motions of planting and then mulch them with all the 

 calves, cows, horses, and other creeping things on the place ; to help 

 matters, the lady of the house, who believes in trees and fruits and 

 flowers and that they ought to be protected in a different manner, 

 turns loose the dogs. The result is that in a short time there is noth- 

 ing left of the " model orchard" but a few bruised, broken, stunted 

 specimens, distasteful to the eye and a disgrace to the landscape; also 

 a recruit to the army of fellows who cuss the nurseryman and declare 

 trees a failure in Nebraska. 



But I must stop before I run down. 



The work of the Horticultural Society is a grand one, and nothing 

 should be left undone to make it beneficial to the greatest number of 

 the people of our state. 



If this will be of any use in helping the work on, use it; if not,, 

 the waste basket will hold it. 



Hoping the Society will have a successful meeting, and that much 

 good will be done, I am, very truly, J. L. Brown. 



DISCUSSION. 



Dunlap — The Birkett is no good. 



Williams — How should we cultivate? I have tried nearly every 

 method of handling an orchard and I don't see that I succeed very 

 well with any of them. First I tried " hogging," but later decided 

 that timothy was better; then I tried blue grass, but I find it "n. g." 



Neff — I find that corn is the best thing to raise in an orchard. I 

 would keep the orchard in corn every year until it begins to bear, and 

 even then I would keep right on. 



Carpenter — Do you use manure ? 



Neff — Yes ; I throw a little around. 



Masters — I am surprised to see Williams rolling down hill so 



