STATE HORTICULTUEAL SOCIETY. Ill 



copies of your report, for which accept thanks. Will place the 

 extra where it will do good. Should much enjoy being at your 

 meeting, but it will not be practicable. Shall hope to see some of 

 your members with us at Madison in February. 



Cordially Yours, 



J. S. STICKNEY. 



Mr. Smith, I intend to put in a steam engine. My sons are 

 using one, and laugh at me when I suflfer from drouth. Their 

 machinery has not cost as much as mine. $400 to $500 will 

 probably cover their expense. Runners come out on one side 

 of the Wilson; then we place them by hand around the parent 

 plant in equal spaces, put on a little earth and let them go. Not 

 much danger of getting Wilsons to thick. Only try to get one 

 large crop from this variety. If not large, let them stand for two 

 crop?. Then plow under. Have had three crops from the Ken- 

 tucky. Crescent might produce three crops, but I do not think I 

 shall ever try any more Crescents. 



Prof. Hall, of the State University, presented charts showing 

 altitudes of Minnesota, and hung them up for the inspection 

 of members during the meeting. 



Mr. Smith. How many feet of altitude are equal to a degree of 

 latitude as affecting temperature? 



Prof. Hall. I will look the matter up. 



