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than speakers. Prof. Green is a good talker with a clear, full 

 voice, and he can hold an audience and pour redhot facts into 

 it. Let all hear Prof. Green. 



Thursday afternoon the meeting was turned over to the 

 Forestry association. The veteran General C. C. Andrews made 

 a stirring address. A paper was read prepared by the game 

 warden on "Forestry and Game Protection." Forest and game 

 go together. The fish and game of Minnesota are worth over 

 $1,000,000 a year, and the state of Maine receives several mil- 

 lions a year from those who fish in its lakes and streams and 

 travel in its forests. 



FORESTRY AS RELATED TO THE FARM. 



One of the most important addresses of the session was given 

 by Mrs. Lidia Phillips WiUiams of Minneapolis on "Forestry as 

 Related to the Farm." The address was replete with practical 

 points and humor. She described a visit to Washington to con- 

 fer with Minnesota congressmen and enlist their efforts in the 

 forest reserves. She spoke of the woods on the farm and that 

 the two were intimately associated. She said that many cases 

 of insanity among women dated back to treeless and cheerless 

 homes, and the terrible drudgery and monotony of unadorned 

 and desolate homes. 



The annual banquet is always an interesting feature where 

 there is "the feast of reason and the flow of soul," and full vent 

 is given to wit and humor. One hundred and twenty-five were 

 present, paying seventy-flve cents each for tickets. I think the 

 Minnesota Horticultural society the best in the world. It has 

 1,800 members and another year will bring it up to 2,000. The 

 reason is that it has one of the most energetic and business-like 

 secretaries that can be found, who puts his life into the work. 

 The members are grand, wholesome men, who have fought their 

 way through many a defeat to sure victory. 



REPORT OF MINDEN EXPERIMENT STATION. 



BY G. A. STRAND. 



Mr. President and Members of Neljraska State Horticultiira2 So- 

 ciety, Gentlemen: I beg leave to report from Minden Experiment 

 Station as follows: 



