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stations, the committee appointed at the last annual meet- 

 ing were expected to make a report now, but Mr. Adams 

 consented to make the report in his. Probably the experi- 

 ments will be carried on through Prof. Henry mainly. 

 Now in regard to this experiment station work, and the 

 money that may come to the state from congress, we either 

 need to have this committee instructed to act in regard to 

 that, or we need to refer it to this legislative committee. 



H. C. Adams — I want ^to say a word in explanation for 

 Profs. Henry and Armsby. Their situation is this: They 

 have only a moderate amount of land favorable for experi- 

 menting, as a large portion of the university grounds is 

 used for a public park you might say. Sundays people 

 come up there and travel all over those grounds, and it is 

 almost impossible to save any fruit raised there, or any 

 flowers or grain. They can get a little corn. These are the 

 facts in the case, 



A. C Tuttle — I do not see anything in the way of hav- 

 ing experiment stations all over the state of Wisconsin, and 

 there should be. You cannot carry on an experiment 

 station at only one point to determine what is necessary for 

 the whole state. You must take different soils and differ- 

 ent temperatures. They are carried on in Minnesota by 

 men who are appointed in different parts of the state to test 

 fruits. If a man wants his fruits tested he sends them to 

 these stations. 



H. C. Adams — Will they carry on continued experiments 

 for a long series of years? 



A. C. Tuttle — Yes. You can find plenty of men in the 

 state who will. You go into St. Croix county and there are 

 men there who will take trees and give them any test you 

 want. They take a interest in doing it. It is done in 

 Minnesota and in Iowa, and until we can get this central 

 station for testing these things, I think we ought immedi- 

 ately to appoint men in different parts of the state to test 

 fruits. 



Pres. Smith — The next thing on the programme is 

 reports of committees. 



Mrs. Huntly will report from her district. (Report read.) 



