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bring along. His friends laughed at him when he told them that he was 

 going to plant a forest. "You are foolish," said a prominent man in 

 Omaha, "to plant a forest out here where you have taken up your land. It 

 will be 100 years at least before the country is settled over ten miles west 

 of the Missouri river, and you will never live to see the trees grow any- 

 way, as nothing can be raised out there except buffalo grass and coyotes." 

 That was fifty years ago, and he has had the satisfaction of seeing and 

 having perhaps the oldest artificial forest in this section of the country. 

 So large have the maples grown that he had cut many of them for the 

 market and for his personal use that have measured from eighteen to 

 fifty-two inches in diameter. Many is the carload of wood that he shipped 

 to Omaha to burn the brick that Omaha is built of, and yet the supply 

 from his thirty-two acre forest has not been diminished; it is replenishing 

 itself continuously. 



Dr. Link is survived by his three sons and three daughters, Mrs. P. L. 

 Hall, wife of Dr. Hall, of Lincoln; Mrs. Alice E. Sharp, of Grand Junction, 

 Colo.; Mrs. Emma Crawford, of Millard; Harvey Link, of Springfield; 

 Emanuel H. Link, of Hillrose, Colo.; and Lon Link, of Coleridge. 



Mr. Henaerson: The committe on revision of the premium list is 

 ready to report. "We went over the premium list very carefully and cut 

 down all first class prizes and made fourth, and even fifth prizes in order 

 to encourage the different parties to come and exhibit and we tried to 

 make up as good a premium list as possible to suit all, in order that all 

 may stand some show to get a prize, and we have been working hard, in 

 order to try to get at the next state fair the best exhibit we have ever had. 

 We tried to be as economical as possible in making out the list, and we 

 were instructed to cut the premiums down, and we did so. We will do 

 the very best we can to make a fine show for our winter meeting. Our 

 secretary will read the report and premiums we decided upon if you wish 

 to hear them. 



The report of this committee was read by Mr. Williams, and referred 

 to the Board of Directors. 



EEPORT OF DELEGATE TO THE MEETING OF THE 

 MINNESOTA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



BY R. A. EMERSON. 



The fortieth annual meeting of the Minnesota Horticultural Society 

 was held in Minneapolis, December 4 to 7, inclusive. A full four days' 

 session was held and every minute of the time was filled up with papers, 

 discussions and important business. There were just fifty papers on the 

 program, besides addresses by the oflacers of the society and delegates 

 from other states, reports of committees, question box, etc. 



Without the aid of a very efficient presiding officer, it would have been 

 impossible to finish the program though the session held from 9:30 to 6, 

 with only an hour and a half intermission at noon. The attendance was 

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