LEGISLATION FOR FRUIT BREEDING. 63 



LEGISLATION FOR FRUIT BREEDING. 



(from minutes of annual meeting.) 



Mr. Wyman Elliot: Before I say anything about what the 

 Executive Board is goinor to present here I want to say some- 

 thing in reference to what has been said about the variation in 

 apples. I have cut a great many apples. I cut four barrels of Ma- 

 linda last winter, and I cut them crosswise rather than lengthwise 

 for a purpose, and I found there was great variation in the core. 

 I observed that they showed the variations very plainly, and not 

 only in the core but there was great variation in the seed. I was 

 very particular when I run across one with that variation to save 

 the seeds. I have them planted and am watching with a great deal 

 of interest what the .outcome will be. Luther Burbank states that 

 whenever you see a variation in a plant you want to nail to it at 

 once. I want to say further that I have been conducting seedling 

 operations for seven or eight years. I have got to the point where 

 I. have got to quit. What are we going to do with this work? 

 Throw it away, or is the State Experiment Station going to be put 

 in shape so it can go ahead and take it in hand? It is just for this 

 reason that we come to you with this bill which we propose to put 

 before our legislature to give us an appropriation, so we can con- 

 tinue these experiments, and so the proper persons can enlarge this 

 work. A draft of this bill is as follows : 



A BILL PROVIDING A FRUIT BREEDING FARM FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF THE 

 STATE OF MINNESOTA. 



Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota as 

 follows : 



Section i. There is hereby appropriated out of the money in 

 the State Treasury not otherwise appropiated, the sum of Sixteen 

 Thousand Dollars ($16,000), or so much thereof as may be neces- 

 sary, for the purchase of a fruit breeding farm for the State Uni- 

 versity, by the Board of Regents of the Minnesota State University, 

 as hereinafter provided. 



Section- 2. There is hereby annually appropriated out of any 

 money in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum 

 of Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000), for the care and management 

 of said fruit breeding farm. 



" Section 3. As soon as may be after the passage of this ace, 

 the Board of Regents of the State University shall select a fruit 

 farm that shall meet with the approval of the Executive Board of 

 the Minnesota State Horticultural Society as being well adapted for 

 fruit breeding purposes. 



