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Show ORCHARDISTS ARE GIVEN AN EXAMPLE " Lawrence, Kan. March 1C Samuel J. Hunter, professor of entomology at the TJnlerslty of Kansas, believes ho has proved what ho had for sixteen years been trying to convince the farmers of the stato. He taught that a little study applied to their orchards or-chards would double the return of their fruit crop, A year ago he and Professor A. T. Walker of tho Latin department leased a ten-year orchard near Lawrence. Law-rence. They took care of it at odd hours, applying tho laboratory methods meth-ods Professor Hunter had been teaching. teach-ing. Doctoring tho trees as a family physician phy-sician would his patients, picking, storing and packing tho apples scientifically, tho men of science watched a neighbor sell his crop of apples at $1.75 a bushel. Today tho two professors spld their entire stock at ?3 a bushel for over $S00. |