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tended any of these meetings, but I can say, with the gentleman 

 who has just spoken, that I have belonged to the society for a 

 good many years, but never attended any of the meetings. I have 

 learned a good many things from this society. I receive the re- 

 ports and read them year after year. Those reports are filled with 

 the experiences of members, and I have learned a great many 

 things by reading those reports. I am following this business only 

 in a small way, I have a small orchard, but I am very well satisfied 

 with what I am getting out of it. We have organized a local so- 

 ciety in Kandiyohi county, and I was elected delegate by that 

 society to this meeting. Our report was sent to Secretary Latham, 

 so I suppose it will be published, and it will not be necessary for 

 me to say anything further along that line. As I say, we have 

 organized a local society, and it looks as though we were going 

 to make a success of it. I shall try to learn from the older mem- 

 bers who have been engaged in the business for many years how they 

 best succeed in the growing of small fruits and apples. I do not 

 wish to take up any more of your time, and I wish to thank you 

 for your kindness. 



The Chairman': Over across the border from the United 

 States — and you don't see any border line up there, it looks just 

 like Minnesota — they have a lot of wideawake people, and they 

 have ofifered us many inducements to come across that border and 

 have taken away a good many of our Minnesota people. They 

 have an excellent horticultural society there, and one member, Mr. 

 Wm. G. Scott, has kept close watch of us, and whenever any of us 

 have strayed up there he has taken us in and given us the best 

 care, and I am one of them. It gives me great pleasure to call 

 upon Mr. Scott to speak a word of greeting for the great country 

 north of us. 



Mr. Wm. G. Scott (\\'innipeg) : I wish to thank you, Mr. 

 Chairman, for the kind words of greeting you have just expressed. 

 I do not want to boast in view of your large membership. Wliile 

 we concede you that large membership, we do not want you to 

 lose sisfht of the fact that we cover so much territory that we are 

 scarcely able to find it. Our society is not large, about 150 mem- 

 bers, but we are pioneers in the work. We are proceeding along 

 the same line with yourselves, and while we cannot hope to show 

 the results for a good many years that you show I want you to get 

 over the idea that we are frozen up a good many months during 

 the year. In October this year when we were picking our apples 

 and gathering fresh flower blosssoms, we read about your blizzard, 

 and ten days ago when you had that terrific blizzard of snow I was 

 at my place covering my strawberry bed. I do not want you to 

 think that we are in a land of everlasting snow. We are not. by 

 anv means. I do not wish to take up any more of your time. I 

 could tell you some of the experiences of our fruit growers and 

 manv other things that might be of interest to you, but I only wish 

 to thank you for the kind reception you have given me. W^hile- 



