Minutes. 7 



Mr. Tuttle — I think there is no objection to it, but we 

 should not wait for it. I think experiments should be com- 

 menced immediately. If a person has a fruit he wants 

 tested let him send it there. We have been recommending 

 fruits that will only do for a single location. 



Mr. Hoxie — It may be very well and is a good plan, if 

 every one of the members of this society were situated so 

 he could afford to give the time to this work that Mr. Tuttle 

 can. But it costs something to do this work, and experi- 

 ments to be of any value must be conducted v/ith under- 

 standing. If a man wants to grow ten thousand bushels of 

 corn or potatoes, he ought to know how to do it. And it is 

 so in growing fruit. If we cannot get an appropriation from 

 congress it would all be very well. I have been requested to 

 lay the matter before the board of regents, and see if we 

 can get anything from them. It was expected and hoped 

 that Mr. Adams could spend time when the board meets 

 there, to talk this matter up before them. I believe now a 

 little work has been mapped out in the way of experiments 

 with strawberries this year, and that is the extent of it. 

 I do not believe there are half a dozen men in the state that 

 would be willing to give a plant the care that is necessary. 

 I know I have been a member of this society for fifteen 

 years, and I know this society has put out lists of all kinds, 

 and many of them have failed. You all know that. Now 

 Mr. Tuttle is not able to test all these varieties. We are in- 

 vited, as Mr. Kellogg says, to see Mr. Loudon's strawberry 

 varieties, one hundred to one hundred and fifty of them, 

 mainly his own. Now if Mr. Loudon had sent these out a 

 year or two ago to different parties in the state, some one 

 might have gone in and stole these and Mr. Loudon would 

 have been out all his money. Now if these experiments 

 had been conducted as they ought to be, he might be pro- 

 tected in what belongs to him. 



Mr. Tuttle — When we talk about apples it is a different 

 thing from strawberries and blackberries. It has been said 

 that I have a favorable place to grow apples, but my orchard 

 is nearly ruined. 



Mr. Phillips — I think mine looks a little worse. 



