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is simply this spot on tte leaf which Mr. Douglas has named. Now if 

 the grass system will enable us to keep the leaves on the trees, I am 

 going for the grass. 



RAILROAD FREIGHTS ON NURSERY STOCK. 



Mr. Wier — I am requested by Capt. Mann to introduce the follow- 

 ing resolution : 



Whereas, It is a well kuowu fact that the i-ailroads m this and other States dis- 

 criminate unjustly, as we think, against the shippers of trees and other niu-sery pro- 

 ducts in the classification of their freight tariff tables ; therefore, 



Eesol/ved, That a committee be appointed by this Society to confer with the oificers 

 of the railroads of this State for the purpose of procuring from them a lower and more 

 just freight tariff on nursery products. 



Mr. Douglas — We are not a society of nurserymen, and I shall 

 object to it on that ground, and also on the ground that it is only 

 fooling away time. 



Mr. Wier — There is not a man in the State of Illinois but that is 

 interested in this resolution. Pack them as closely as you please, 

 and they charge double first-class freights. 



Mr. Brown — Do you think it would do any good ? 



Mr. Periam — They take up the room. On all through freights 

 they will give you as cheap rates as they can, but to local tariffs they 

 will put on all they can. 



Mr. Wier — I move that the resolution be adopted. The motion 

 prevailed, and the resolution was adopted by ayes 21, noes 16. 



Mr. Daggy — For the convenience of parties going away, I move 

 that when we adjourn to-morrow, we adjourn at 11 o'clock A. M. 

 Carried. 



TILE DRAINING. 



Dr. Hull — Tile draining in orchards is not worth a fig. In the 

 State of Michigan I have been in one hundred and fifty orchards in 

 which it was resorted to, and in all of them the ditches became filled 



