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Mr. Wyman Elliot : I am not going to say good bye, I am here 

 for the campaign. (Applause.) That is what we should all sav 

 when we talk about the "boys." I feel just as young as any of the 

 boys, and I fell them I am going to try to be a boy always and get 

 all the fun out of this life possible. Now we have a great many 

 different ways of getting it. My wife says I am a crank, a seedling 

 crank, and I will admit it. I never eat an apple but what I save 

 the seed and tuck it into my pocket. (Prof. Green: You don't let 

 anybody else do it if you can help it.) (Laughter.) At hopie I 

 have a little tin can containing some damp sand and all the seed 

 goes in there, and when the can is full it goes out info the back yard 

 and is covered up and another can goes in its place. I am in one 

 sense a miser, a seed miser, and I wish there were more of them. 

 My object in getting these apples is to create an interest in seedlings, 

 and if by that method I have been fhe means of raising one good 

 apple in the state of Minnesota I shall feel well repaid. (Applause.) 



The Chairman : Now we are going to hear from Mr. Yahnke. 

 Mr. Yahnke always gives us something to laugh about and to think 

 about, and we'll give him just two minutes to tell us how he feels. 



Mr. Frank Yahnke : I am all mixed up ; my father was a 

 Frenchman, my mother was a German, Philips is my brother and 

 that makes me a Yahnke. (Great laughter and applause.) When 

 the weather becomes cold I put a heavy hat on my head, and when 

 it gets warm I put on shoes. But to come down to business, the 

 best evergreens I have ever seen are in the western part of Min- 

 nesota. A man that is right here now has got the best evergreens 

 in the worst place in the state. When I was out there he told me 

 how he did it. This is Mr. Sievert I am talking about, and there 

 is no use denying it, he can raise evergreens on that dry western 

 prairie, but then he has a secret about it. He plants a hill of 

 potatoes under every tree, then he puts an onion in the hill of 

 potatoes, the onion makes the potatoes' eyes water and that keeps 

 the ground wet. (Great laughter.) I have not said anything be- 

 cause Philips said everything I wanted to say, and I prepared a 

 couple of speeches a year ahead. He comes to my house to visit 

 me and pretends to think a whole lot of me, but he always manages 

 to steal my speeches, and then everybody thinks he is a great fellow. 

 Now I would like to hear Philips make one of my speeches. 

 (Laughter and applause.) 



The Chairman : That's pretty hard on Philips, but then Yahnke 

 ought to know. Now we want to hear from the man who grows 

 the evergreens, Mr. Sievert. 



Mr. Sievert : I feel a good deal like Mr. Cummins, I am not 

 used to public speaking. I do not see so many people as Mr. Yahnke 

 does, and I am somewhat bashful when I get into a crowd. I want 

 to say that I have learned a great deal since I have attended these 

 meetings. I have taken up fruit growing. That is something I 

 have not done much of, and I need a great deal of information on 

 the subject, but I find this is the very best place to get it. I am 



