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MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



You farmers, you can raise these sturdy pines as easily as 

 you please, and they will cost you cash out the price of the seed. 

 Here is a Minnesota jack pine two years' growth five feet. 

 How is that? This grew without any cultivation in a bank of 

 stiiT clay. You have a man up at Aitkin in your state who has 

 two millions of fine seedlings which he could put down at your 

 door for a little over one-half cent a piece. But I am afraid you 



The bull pine. 



are still going to live on a wind swept prairie and let him throw 

 his trees on the brush pile. It's too bad ! He sent those trees 

 down to the United States Government Station in the Nebraska 

 sand hills that are doing so wonderfully well. His name is 

 H. B. Ayers. I don't suppose he is here. I don't care to ad- 

 vertise him, but I want to advertise you and let you know what 



