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a year to run the concern. I furnish all the stock and all of the 

 labor out of that amount. The expectation is for me to run it un- 

 til the results are fully ascertained; I footing all bills and furnish- 

 ing all stock, and putting in whatever I deem best. That is what 

 has taken me out this winter to look around through Wisconsin 

 and Iowa to find if there was anything better than I have on hand; 

 anything really desirable in the orchard. I think from the condi- 

 tion of things, and the climate, that anything that will succeed 

 there, will succeed anywhere in the northwest. I suppose there 

 is not a more severe portion of Minnesota for tree culture than 

 right through the center. This orchard is situated on a high point 

 at the lake shore, seventy feet, probably, above the water, and at a 

 point where there can be no neighboring orchard set that can pos- 

 sibly influence it. It is the only point, probably, in the state that 

 ■would be really suitable for the purpose and exempt from all 

 danger of being interfered with by other orchards. It is a matter 

 that the whole northwest is really interested in, and it is my opinion 

 that other states would do well to take part in it, because seed can 

 be grown there in sufficient quantities to furnish the whole north- 

 west without any enhanced cost over and above the thousand dol- 

 lars per year. 



Mr. Kellogg — I would like to ask if there is anything besides 

 apples connected with the experiment. 



Mr. Gideon — We will have a pear orchard set there in the 

 spring, but so far as the growing of seed is concerned, the apple 

 orchard is the only thing. I will state that I am setting several 

 acres of other truck, pears, grapes and other things, but there will 

 be no apple trees of any kind set except in that orchard. 



The following letter on Forestry from Dr. Warder, was read: 

 A PLEA FOR TREE PLANTING. 



JNO A. WARDER, M. D., North Bexd, Ohio. 



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