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and when I get back have me tell them what good things you are 

 doing and the good things that were said here, and it is with great 

 pleasure that I am permitted to meet with you at this time. I thank 

 you. , 



The President : We have also with us another Wisconsin gen- 

 tleman who is a delegate at large and locally represents the Lake 

 Mills Horticultural Society, Mr. Kellogg. 



Mr. Geo. J. Kellogg (Wis.) : I don't think it is necessary for 

 me to make a speech. I am too well acquainted here. Philips and 

 I are half brothers, and he does enough talking for both of us, so 

 it is not necessary for me to make a speech. We are not bashful 

 like the gentleman from the southeastern part of the state. He is 

 not married, and has not had the experience we have had. I am 

 glad to be here. I don't think I would have been here if I had not 

 been on the program, and I don't think I should have been here any 

 way if I had not had a daughter living in your city with whom I ate 

 Thanksgiving turkey — and I have been eating turkey ever since. 

 I don't want to say any more, because I will say enough before the 

 close of the session — only this, that I am glad to be with you. (Ap- 

 plause.) 



The President : I am sure that we most heartily appreciate the 

 presence of Mr. Kellogg here and would hardly know how to con- 

 duct a meeting without him. We have also with us Mr. J. C. 

 Hawkins, of Austin, representing the Southern Minnesota Horti- 

 cultural Society. Mr. Hawkins, we are always glad to hear a word 

 from you. 



Mr. Hawkins : Mr. President, it is quite a privilege to meet 

 with these old war horses, or what is left of them. I have met with 

 3'ou for the last sixteen or eighteen years — at least it is so many 

 years that I have forgotten the exact number — but I always feel as 

 if I were at home when I get here. Our society is in a flourishing 

 condition, and we are going to have an enthusiastic meeting in 

 January, and extend a cordial invitation to as many of you as can 

 attend. Our fruit production and fruit industry in Mower county 

 has doubled and trebled in the last ten years. Somehow, unfortu- 

 nately, I do not set out as many orchards as Brother Kellogg here. 

 The first one was gone years ago, but the second was a success. 

 Orchards are just coming into bearing with us. I said at one of our 

 meetings at Austin ten years ago that there were men then in the 

 room who would in ten years see apples shipped out of Mower 

 county by the carload. They told me then I was crazy, but they 

 have been shipping them out by the carload for two or three years. 

 Another thing I have said was that when farmers see the money that 

 can be made from orchards, as they make it from hogs and sheep, 

 there will be lots of apples grown in Minnesota. The trouble is 

 not with the tree, but with the man. I want to say another thing: 

 the number of these old gray heads is getting few, and of the faces 

 I met here sixteen years ago there are but very few left. There is 

 another thing here that afifords me a great deal of satisfaction, and 



