the row four inches wide and plants six inches apart. This brings more
berries and better plants."

Prof. C. B. Waldron, of Fargo, N.D., horticulturist at the Fargo
Agricultural College for a quarter century, who has rarely missed being
with us at any summer gathering, being called upon, among other things
said: "There are a good many things that affiliate people together in
groups of one kind or another. It used to be that if people had the same
belief about eternal punishment, etc., that they would group themselves
together, but nowadays we find people grouping themselves according to
more natural methods. I think people grouping themselves together for a
common love of trees, fruits and flowers makes a more natural bond of
affiliation, and when I find a man that knows the names of many of our
beautiful flowers I feel drawn to him at once. I can't seem to tire of
that person's company, no matter what political party he belongs to.
These things that I speak of seem to be a more natural and harmonious
relationship to build our friendship upon than almost anything else. I
know that I always look forward days and weeks ahead to meetings like
this, where I can meet with people who love and admire and cherish the
things that I find my greatest delight in."

The superintendent of the Fruit-Breeding Farm, Mr. Chas. Haralson, spoke
briefly of the work at the Fruit-Breeding Farm, which he is conducting
with such distinguished success. His statement was altogether too brief
when one knows the vast amount of detail work that is being done there
in development of new fruits: "The work at the Fruit-Breeding Farm is
carried on just the same as usual. We are working on strawberries,
plums, apples, grapes somewhat and several other fruits like
gooseberries and currants. The best success we have had so far in the
new varieties is with strawberries, raspberries and plums. It takes only
a few years to run through a generation of these, and we can get them
selected quicker than apples. The plum crop is very light this year,
especially on the hybrid plums, on account of winter-killing, that is,
the buds killed during the winter. They never did that before, but this
year they have done it to a great extent. The strawberry crop is very
good and so are the raspberries now coming on. Probably as many as 2,000
apple seedling trees are bearing this year, so we will have a little
chance for selection in the line of apples. In grapes we are worki