188 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
as Mr. Elliot, Mr. Harris, Mr. Latham, Mr. Philips and a number 
of others I might mention, that have had this matter in charge. I 
can speak freely of this subject because I have not had anything 
to do with it, but I can see no use in these criticisms of the man- 
agement of the state fair, and the best thing Mr. Dartt can do, or 
anybody else for that matter, is to come in and make the best ex- 
hibit possible and have a good time, and start long enough ahead 
so as to have the exhibit in place and ready on Monday morning 
when the fair opens. As superintendent of that division this year 
I insisted that the horticultural department must be ready on Mon- 
day morning, and it was ready on Monday morning, and so far as 
the horticultural exhibit was concerned people got their half dollar’s 
worth. 
Mr. Harris: Mr. President, I must confess I did grumble a little about 
one of the rules, and that was in regard to putting up the cold storage fruit 
on Friday and Saturday. Before the week is gone it is all used up. For 
those big exhibits it is all right. I would suggest that they allow fruit to 
come in until Monday noon. Instead of objecting to those stringent rules 
I think we will make them still more stringent, and we will learn by ex- 
perience where we can better them. 
Mr. Philips, (Wis.): As one of the judges in the fruit department at 
the state fair last fall I noticed some things that I thought could be bettered, 
and being an outsider, of course, I may speak of it. Of those rigid rules 
that Mr. Underwood speaks of, compelling every one to have his fruit 
there ready for exhibition on Saturday night, ready for the opening on 
Monday morning, I have just this to say: I received that notice and tried 
to live up to it. I brought my fruit and put it up Saturday afternoon. The 
trouble with your fair last fall was—and I looked the fruit over every day— 
that while there were some men who brought their fruit in from a distance, 
there were others bringing in fruit until Wednesday, and that makes an in- 
justice to the man who comes a long distance with his fruit. If you are 
going to have that rule, enforce it, and every man who is not there on 
Monday morning with his fruit rule him out. There were plates of apples 
there on Tuesday that became a little soft, and on Wednesday they had a 
better plate in place of them. I don’t know how it happened, but then I 
am not supposed to know anything about what happens in Minnesota. If 
you make a rule live up to it. ri 
In regard to this large show for the sweepstakes premium. In Wisconsin 
years ago we did not have this wide open policy. We obliged a man to 
show his own fruit, and if a man was honest he did not bring in a big show. 
But Mr. Dartt intimated that years ago the other fellows were dishonest and 
showed fruit that they did not raise themselves. In order to do away with 
this, this premium is offered, and a man can get his fruit for this entry any- 
where in Minnesota. 
Mr. Harris: Couldn’t get anything in Wisconsin. (Laughter.) 
Mr. Philips: Don’t say too much, young man. The outcome of offer- 
ing that premium is to make the best show ofvany state in the union. It 
makes a magnificent show, and I cannot agree with my friend Dartt in his 
conclusions. That sweepstakes premium is all right. I have heard it in- 
timated that horticulturists borrow freely of their neighbors. It gives a 
man license to work in things that he cannot raise himself. If Mr. Harris 
