JOURNAL OF ANNUAL MEETING, Ig04. 5O3 



Mr. Elliot: Capt. Reed, I think, means trial station. It is through 

 the office of the executive committee that trial stations are estab- 

 lished. It is first presented to the executive board, and they in turn 

 bring the matter before the society, and the society votes upon the 

 measure. I suppose this is only a recommendation along that line. 



Mr. Yahnke : I think we have got about the same idea, but I 

 would like to have it changed in this way, ^hat the board has not got 

 to ask the society first. At present if we v/ant to establish a trial 

 station we have to bring the matter before the society. In this way 

 the board could act. That is all the difference. I want to have that 

 understood by every one before the resolution is voted upon, whether 

 they want to give the power to the board or leave it in the hands of 

 the society. 



The Secretary: The members of the board who have done the 

 executive work know the difficulties attendant upon the establishment 

 of trials stations. Such a matter ought to be carefully considered. A 

 resolution leaving it to the discretion of the board would seem the 

 proper thing to present. 



Capt. Reed : I think when you find a county has taken the 

 matter in hand and organized a society of at least twenty-five mem- 

 bers, then you can select your man who is v/illing to work for noth- 

 ing for the sake of having a trial station and to get in communica- 

 tion with the state society and the state farm where he may get free 

 plants to start his work with. 



The President : I would like to say for the information of the 

 society, and particularly for Capt. Reed's benefit, that, if my memory 

 serves me right, the executive committee has never refused a trial 

 station to any community or locality desiring it, and I think inas- 

 much as it has been the case in the past we hardly need to anticipate 

 any trouble in regard to the question in the future, where there is any 

 need of establishing a trial station. 



Prof. Green : The time is now fifteen minutes past the hour when 

 the Forestry Association was to take up its work. I will give up 

 the reading of my paper in order to let the Forestry Association 

 have the time, and I move that the Forestry Association be now 

 given the right of way and that the matter under consideration be 

 taken up at a later time. 



The motion was duly seconded, and being put to a vote, prevailed, 



MINNESOTA STATE FORESTRY ASSOCIATION, JOINT 



SESSION. 



The meeting was called to order at 3:15 o'clock by the president, 

 Mr. C. M. Loring. 



The President : I am not going to make a formal address at 

 this time, because we have a full program, nearly all of those who 

 are to participate being present, and their papers will be much more 

 interesting than my address, and so I will do as they do in congress, 

 move that my address be printed. (See index.) 



