gest, and I believe I speak for him when I say I
hope you will feel free to ask him questions. As I said before, he has a
fund of information that I think we nut people ought to have, and the
general public as well. We have a very good exhibit of the nuts. Mr.
Vollertsen is the practical man in the enterprise we are interested in.
I look after the business end of it. We are equally interested in it and
feel that we have made some progress.

DR. MORRIS: Put Mr. McGlennon on too.

MR. MCGLENNON: I have said all I can say.

MR. VOLLERTSEN: You have said too much.

PRESIDENT REED: If there is nothing else, we will stand
adjourned until 2:30 p. m.

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TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 9, 1919, 2:30 P. M.
PRESIDENT W. C. REED, IN THE CHAIR

PRESIDENT REED: The first paper is by Mr. Hoover, Matthew Henry
Hoover, of Lockport, N. Y., president of the New York State Conservation
Association. Mr. Hoover is not here, and the Secretary will read his
paper.

THE FARMS BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD

BY MATTHEW HENRY HOOVER, LOCKPORT, N. Y.
FORMERLY NEW YORK CONSERVATION COMMISSIONER
PRESIDENT NEW YORK STATE CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION

Horace Greeley is best known for his contribution to the abolition of
human slavery in the United States. Yet his service to mankind is not
fully appraised by the average American, because many of the younger
generation are unaware of his aid to agriculture. His maxim about
farmers' failing to till the most valuable part of their farms
underneath, opening the eyes of agriculturists to the efficacy of
sub-soil plowing, was the preamble to freeing American husbandry from
the slavery of antiquated and unscientific methods.

Following the application of science to the cultivation of the soil,
came the students of Conservation. They were teaching the farmer the
relation of conservation of natural resources to agriculture, the
effects of forests on rainfall, moisture, erosion of soil, minimization
of floods that annually bury thousands of acres of arable lands in the
valleys, under rocky debris and so on.

Greeley discovered the Farm Below. The Conservationists are saving the
Farm Above.

Now, in these days of reclamation and reconstruction, it is high time to
pay more attention to the Farm by the Side of the Road.

The Northern Nut Growers' Association is to be congratulated upon the
fact that it is blazing the trail through the forest of popular