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This is Prosser's seedling (indicating), and comes from south- 

 ern Minnesota. 



Mr. Prosser : Did you ever keep that through the winter tc 

 compare it with other apples ? 



Mr. Elliot : I have not because I have not had it. 



This (indicating), is the G. A. Anderson apple, which I spoke 

 of before. This never has been propagated, but if it will in- 

 crease in size I think I would as soon have that apple as anything 

 on the table. It is a very good apple. 



Here is another Wisconsin apple from Mr. Tuttle, of Baraboo. 



It is a fine apple and scored up to eighty points, the same scoring 



as the G. A. Anderson apple received. It is firm and solid and 



■ looks to me as though it was going to be a good cooking apple. 



Here is an apple (indicating), that has been on exhibition and 

 has taken the premium for several years. That is one of the con- 

 ditions that bars it out. There is not a better apple in the whole 

 lot than this today when you consider quality, etc., and it scores up 

 to the first of February. It is not what we call a late winter keep- 

 er. It is an early winter, but if you keep it in the right condition, 

 you can keep it till the middle of Februarv. It is the Evelyn. 



That comprises all we have of the winter varieties. There are 

 twelve in all that were judged. There are some that we threw 

 out. There is one plate to which I want to call your attention. I 

 will hold up these two apples and want you to say what they are. 

 They were put on exhibition as being a seedling of the Fall Stripe, 

 and as quick as I cut one and tasted it I said at once it was a 

 Wealthy or a seedling of the Wealthy that had reproduced itself. 

 Here is another. It is an old grafted variety placed on the table 

 to catch the committee. It is a very small specimen this year, but 

 last year they were magnificent. 



Mr. S. M. Owen : Are any of these apples promising candi- 

 dates for the thousand dollar premium? 



Mr. Elliot: No, I have not seen one yet that will fill the con- 

 ditions. You are a pretty old man, and there are lots of young men 

 who will be as gray as you before that premium is taken, I think. 



Prof. Harry A. Huston: (Chicago). Now, there is something 

 in regard to this matter of testing these apples that I do not under- 

 stand. I would like to know whether this fruit which you have 

 been testing came directly from the trees, or had some of it been 

 on exhibition ? 



Mr. Elliot : It was gathered up from the tables, and I do not 

 know what the conditions were previous to this meeting, but af- 

 ter it I do. 



Prof. Huston : TTiat ,is what we want to get at. There has 

 been some work done, to which your attention has, perhaps, not 

 been called, in the x\gri. Department, in regard to cold storage 

 apples. Experiments were made testing the changes taking place 

 in apples in keeping and handling the fruit from the time it leaves 

 the tree until it reaches cold storage. If we are to have a definite 



