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men there from New York selling stock from the time the county 

 was first settled up to ten years ago. Ten years ago I offered to 

 give any man a dozen apple trees who would show me an apple 

 tree that came from New York and a dozen apples it had borne. 

 No one has yet called on me for the trees. 



Mr. Geo. H. Whiting (S. D.) : Mr. Taylor might get fooled 

 on that proposition yet. (Laughter.) I know it is a fact that the 

 greater portion of the apple trees that are sold by Rochester people 

 are grown west of the Mississippi river, a great many of them west 

 of the Missouri river. What I want to ask is whether the people 

 living in western Minnesota, South Dakota and other states want 

 us to raise apple trees and send them to New York and then have 

 them shipped out here and sold. I would like to know why they 

 prefer that kind of a tree grown under, those conditions. We 

 that are in the business and know what is going on know that 

 the greater portion of those trees are grown west of the Missis- 

 sippi river. The greater portion of trees shipped from Rochester 

 are grown out here and then reshipped. Ask any of the leading 

 nurserymen about it; they know. 



Mrs. Jennie Stager: I had a little experience with New York 

 trees. I wanted to grow some apples. I sent back to Pennsyl- 

 vania for some trees and also got some from Rochester, N. Y., but 

 the trees kept dying, and I got no fruit. About that time I came 

 across an announcement of this society, and since then I have raised 

 apples. I tried very hard for five years to grow apples, but none 

 of those trees lived and bore until I got Minnesota stock. (Ap- 

 plause.) 



Mr. A. A. Johnson: I bought five hundred trees from a Mis- 

 souri ' nursery. There were sixty Duchess, and out of that num- 

 ber one-third died, and it looks as though the rest of them would 

 also die. 



Mr. E. A. Smith : A general impression prevails that trees 

 grown in the east are not a success in the northwest. May this 

 not be the reason in the first place ? Perhaps they do not have the 

 varieties that are adapted to the northwest. Their methods of 

 propagating are somewhat different. Take the plum for instance. 

 The plum if grafted on the peach or on some tender root here in 

 the northwest we find will winter-kill, but here we graft it on the 

 wild plum, and that is as hardy as we need. The same illustration 

 may perhaps apply in this case. Perhaps they also grafted upon 

 more tender apple roots, and owing to the longer season the 

 graft is not tough in fiber, so that instead of ripening to the very 

 tip perhaps there is considerable left that will winter-kill when 

 transplanted, especially the first season. 



The Chairman: There is one point not touched upon why we 

 should buy from nurserymen in Minnesota in preference to nursery- 

 men at a distance, and 'that is that a nurseryman at a distance sel- 

 dom know the requirements of a Minnesota climate. Most nur- 

 serymen in Minnesota know their customers, and they want their 

 nursery stock to be successful wherever it is planted, and they find 

 there is more or less in selection with reference to the climate. A 

 nurseryman that has stock here naturally has stock adapted to this 



