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matured the seeds should be preserved in sand and carefully 

 marked, planted and patiently watched for years till the 

 effect of this labor is developed. The professor is looking 

 for grand results, by crossing our best old varieties with the 

 best of the Russians. 



Rev. G. W. Minier, president of the American Forestry 

 Congress, was at both meetings and reported the proceed- 

 ings of that congress, their recent visit to the Rockies, the 

 terrible destruction of timber on its eastern slope, evading 

 the law passed by congress "forbidding the cutting of green 

 timber f (they just burn it over and cut it the next season), 

 the success attending investigation on certain portions of the 

 great American deserts, the diminution of the water supply 

 already felt as the timber disappears. These with many 

 other questions of interest, occupied the time of these con- 

 ventions. It was considered necessary that we ought to 

 favor the Hatch bill now before congress for the appropria- 

 tion and establishment of experimental stations in all the 

 states and territories, and that every member write to their 

 member in congress to favor that bill. 



Pres. Smith — We will now listen to Mr. Tuttle who was 

 a delegate to the Iowa State Horticultural Society. 



A. G. Tuttle— I have no written report, but would 

 say that the meeting in Iowa was well attended. I found 

 they had the same difficulties in Iowa that we have here in 

 Wisconsin. There was plenty of destruction of fruit on ac- 

 count of the cold weather. They were looking for more 

 hardy varieties. Mr. Budd was present and had something 

 to say about the Russian fruits. There seemed to be a gen- 

 eral idea that it was going to be a good fruit country out 

 there, especially in the southern part where they do not 

 need the Russian varieties. They can grow varieties there, 

 that we cannot grow in Wisconsin, in any part of the state, 

 but generally in the northern half of the state they follow 

 in about the same line as we have here. 



Pres. Smith — I will call on Mr. Peffer who was ap- 

 pointed delegate to the Michigan Society. 



