THE NATIONAT. NURSERYMAN 
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coiiditioiis will lUMiiiit and as soon as he ean i)repai'e ai 
least teinporaiy (piarlers for the storing’ of his nursery 
stock as it is dug. lie has a hig stock iii the field and 
can j)rohal)ly du|)licate most of the orders that were de¬ 
stroyed in the fire. 
Mr. Donaldson will have the sympathy of the trade in 
his misfortune and no doiihl every consideration from 
those whose orders have l)een held up on account of the 
fire. 
INCREASED PRODUCTION OF FRUIT AS FOOD TO 
HELP WIN THE WAR 
Representative nurserymen of the North Central and 
Mississippi Valley states in session in Des Moine, Iowa, 
December 4tli, 5th, 1917, desire to greet the Honorable 
Herbert Hoover and all other food administrators for 
these reasons: , 
Whereas: 
the successful prosecution of the war in which our 
country is engaged will overtax our normal food pro¬ 
duction if we are to su])ply our people at home and 
our allies abroad, and 
Whereas 
throughout every state and section of the nation there 
are scores of millions of fruit trees of mature and bear¬ 
ing size and age that would bring within the reacli 
and ])urchasing po\\ er of the most humble of our citi¬ 
zens, hundreds of millions of bushels of fruit in excess 
of the normal ])roduction during the season of 1918 
without the entailment of great expense or the encum¬ 
bering of our already crowded transportation facilities 
Therefore, be it resolved that we nurserymen in confer¬ 
ence assembled tender our services gratitously to the 
owners of fruit trees everywhere in the matter of in¬ 
struction for the immediate rejuvenation of barren and 
Under ])roductive trees to make them fully productive.' 
We request nurserymen everywhere to render this pat¬ 
riotic service w henever and wherever possible to in¬ 
crease the production of fruit as food from present or¬ 
chards for the wnnning of America’s w ar. 
We respectfully suggest that the national and state 
food administrators include in all their propaganda for 
increased food production this agitation and admon¬ 
ition to spray, prune, cultivate, fertilize and otherwise 
so handle as to bring into full and immediate produc¬ 
tion all orchards and fruit trees of whatever kind or 
w herever located. 
We respectfully suggest that this rc'solution be given 
w ide and general dissimination by all food administra¬ 
tors, ])ublications and other intei'esis working for the 
w inning of the war. 
(Signed) (committee of Resolutions. 
E. S. Smith. Troy. Ohio. 
F. .1. Wright, Des Moitu'S, In. 
Pi’of. S. A. Ih'ach, Anu's, la. 
11. L. Merk(*l, D(‘s Moines, la. 
Private How ard E. Andrews, in the Landscape Depart¬ 
ment of the A. W. Smith Company, Pittsburgh, Penna., 
enlisted in the U. S. Signal Coips, and sailed for France 
several w(‘eks ago. Mr. And rews began his career as a 
nurseryman at Harrisons’ Nurseries, Rerlin, Maryland; 
Howard E. Andrews 
and at various times has been in the employ of such well- 
known nursery firms as the Rerry Hill Nursery Company, 
Harrisburg, Penna., and the Andorra Nurseries, Chestnut 
Hill, Penna. He is twenty-five years old, unmarried, 
and glad to go in defense of his country. 
THE SATSUMA ORANGE 
The Satsuma Orange is scarcely known and has never 
been produced in sufficient quantity to become w ell estab¬ 
lished in the markets, but it has become established in the 
desires of all who have sampled them and the demand far 
exceeds the supply. The Satsuma differs from other 
oranges in methods of production and time of harvest that 
it is an industry of its owm and has to be handled along a 
line peculiar to itself. 
It is a fact that the farther north they can be grown 
and escape the frost the better quality of fruit they pro¬ 
duce. And below^ the frost line they are a failure; they 
are also a failure on the rich alluvial soil even though the 
tempeiature is satisfactory, or in other wmrds our cut 
over pine lands within 100 miles of the coast, which are 
short of humus and nilrogen is the ideal location for the 
pi’oduction of this orange. There is no doubt some of you 
would like to ask if the Satsuma industiy wos not ruined 
in South Alabama by the sevei’e weather the past winter. 
I w ill anticipate this desire on your part and will say that 
