ealthy.

I am glad that you take so much interest in this matter of new
seedlings. It will surely develop something some day, there is no
question about it. Of course, you cannot tell when, and you cannot tell
who will be the lucky man to get the thousand dollars, but undoubtedly
there is more at stake than the thousand dollars; that is a very small
item.

I think I will not take up your time. It is getting on, and I have not
thought of making any talk, have nothing prepared and nothing in my
head. I thank you for your attention. (Applause.)

The President: I am going to call on our good friend, Professor Hansen,
secretary of the South Dakota Horticultural Society, who has done so
much for us.

Mr. Wedge: Mr. Hansen is not here. I just want to say a word that might
interest some of the younger members of the society in regard to our
friend who has just left the floor, Mr. Whiting, of Yankton. He is the
original Dakota nurseryman, who went out in the days of the pioneers
before I think there was any such thing as South Dakota, and he has
stayed on the job ever since. That is not so wonderful, for others, lots
of people, have stayed on the job, but he has made money out of the
business and got rich. I think he deserves some very special praise.
(Applause.)

The President: Is Professor Waldron in the room? Here he comes. He is
the leading light of North Dakota and a gentleman who has been with us
before. (Applause.)

Mr. Waldron: These people will think North Dakota is a dark place if
this is a leading light. What is the occasion of this?

The President: Tell us your troubles.

Mr. Waldron: When we had a good wheat crop we did not have any troubles.
We forget our other troubles whenever we can get something like 100
million bushels of wheat. Our horticultural troubles have been quite
numerous. We had a frost every year, including July. We started in on
the ninth day of June with a frost that killed everything in sight
except a few cottonwood trees and things like that, but all of our
tomatoes, which were in blossom by the way at that time because we had a
favorable spring, and plums and apples went the same way. I think a few
of the late blooming plums managed to survive. The frost in July did not
hurt very much but the frost in August certainly finished us.

Mr. Latham: The reporter is taking all that.

Mr. Waldron: Our reputation is so good, we can own up to calamity once
in a while. Of course, if our reputa