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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
the fact that the minor wood-using industries are going to the forest 
for their raw material, when in many cases inferior materials from the 
sawmills would fully meet their needs. Approximately 75 per cent of 
the 140,000,000 railroad ties used each year are hewed. These could 
as well be sawed. By maldng the ties at the sawmill a considerable 
part of the timber now going into inferior lumber could be turned to 
that use. Moreover, such material comes from top logs and from hearts 
of large logs, which are often so knotty as to throw the lumber into' the 
lower grades. Hewed ties now come from the best middle-sized growing 
trees, which in 25 years would make excellent saw timber. 
TEXAS STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
The midwinter meeting will be held at Houston, January 
16th and 17th, 1913, in the banquet hall of the Bender Hotel. 
A splendid program has been arranged for the two days. 
A luncheon will be tendered the members of the Texas 
State Horticultural Society, when Sam H. Dickson will 
preside as toastmaster. 
Morning Session 
Thursday, January 16, IQ13, 9:30 A. M. 
Prayer—Rev. William States Jacobs, Houston. 
Address of Welcome, in behalf of the city—W. C. Munn, President 
of the Houston Chamber of Commerce, Houston. 
Address in behalf of the citizens of Houston and the Horticulturists 
of South Texas—Sam H. Dixon, Houston. 
Response—M. Falkner, Waco. 
Japanese Fruits which may succeed in Texas—S. Aria, Alvin. 
Insects and Diseases of Citrus Fruits—I. E. Cowart, member Senior 
Horticultural class of the A. & M. College of Texas. 
Afternoon Session, 2:00 P. M. 
The Future of the Fig Industry and the Northern Limit—J. C. 
Carpenter, Houston. 
Canning Fruits and 'Vegetables for Profit—O. R. Hamilton, Frank¬ 
lin. 
The Bee- in Horticulture, the Mission of the Bee in Cross Polliniza- 
tion—Louis School, New Braunfels. 
Insects and Diseases of the Peach—E. L. Ayers, member of the 
junior Horticultural class of the A. & M. College of Texas. 
Picking and Packing of Fruit—M. H. James, Jr., member of Senior 
Horticultural class of the A. & M. College of Texas. 
Notes from the Rio Grande Horticultural vSociety—E. Pomeroy, 
Donna. 
Evening Session, 7:30 P. M. 
Address on Some Horticultural Subject—P. L. Downs, Temple. 
The Importance of a Commercial Grove of Pecans-^J. M. Ramsey, 
Austin. 
Insect Pests of Pecans and Other Nuts—Harper Dean, Assistant 
vState Entomologist, College Station. 
Combination Orchards—W. A. Stockwell, Alvin. 
Friday, January 17, 1913, 8:30 A. M. 
Insects and Diseases of the Grape—E. W. Laake, member of the 
Senior Horticultural class of the A. & M. College of Texas. 
Combination Fruit and Poultry Farm—Mrs. Benigna G. Kalb, 
Crockett. 
Tree Surgery—D. T. Stevens, member of the Senior Horticultural 
class of the A. & M. College of Texas. 
Echoes from the National Nut Growers’ Convention—E. W. Kirk¬ 
patrick, McKinney. 
Entertainment of the National Nut Growers’ Association for 1913, 
discussion led by vSam H. Dixon, Houston. 
•Noon-day luncheon tendered the members of the Texas State 
Horticultural Society in the Grill room of the Bender Hotel—Sam H. 
Di.xon, toastmaster, Houston. 
Afternoon Session 
Given over to the Committee on Entertainment. 
AGRICULTURAL LABOR 
The Secretary of Agriculture has issued a report on farm 
labor which, he says, is “relatively a diminishing element” on 
account of the rapid increase of industrialism. According to 
census reports, 83.1 per cent of all persons reported to be 
engaged in gainful occupations in 1820 were employed in 
agriculture. This class of labor dropped to 77.5 per cent in 
1840, 47.3 per cent in 1870, 44.1 per d^nt in 1880, 37.2 per 
cent in 1890, and 35.3 per cent in 1900. In the same time the' 
number of persons actually gainfully engaged in agriculture 
increased from 2,068,958 to io,249,65i._ 
NEWS ITEMS 
F. A.. Huntley, official horticulturist for the state of 
Washington, has received notice from the United States 
government that he has been appointed United States 
inspector for the port of Seattle, in addition to his state 
duties. Seattle is one of two new ports of entry for horticrd- 
tural inspection recently created on 'the Pacific coast, the 
other being San Francisco. 
John Dunbar, assistant superintendent of parks at 
Rochester, N. Y., has informed friends that he has discovered 
a new hybrid hickory in Riverside cemetery, a cross between 
the bitternut hickory and the shagbark hickory. The nut, 
which is of unusual size, measuring one and one-half inches or 
more in length, is rich and sweet. Mr. Dunbar considers the 
variety will without doubt prove a welcome addition to our 
native American nut bearing trees. It is understood a 
quantity of nuts wiU be sown this season arid a number of 
grafts will be made. 
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