MEMORIAL HOUR. 323 



foresight of the people of the state of Minnesota ; it has come also 

 through the work of the loyal faculty of the School of Agriculture, 

 and Dr. Lugger by his work throughout the state did much to make 

 the experiment station a thing of vital interest to the farmers of 

 Minnesota. In the early days it was the entomological department 

 that brought the experiment station favorably before the people of 

 the state by reason of the subduing under Dr. Lugger's manage- 

 ment of the grasshopper pest in Otter Tail county. 



Dr. Lugger was a good friend of mine. I used to love to go in 

 and talk with Lugger. I say "Lugger," because we always spoke of 

 him as Lugger. He was a German by birth and came to this coun- 

 try to avoid military service. He had a military training and soon 

 found a position and was noted for the thoroughness of his work. 

 He was first with the United States survey, then with Riley, and 

 then came out here. His work was thorough ; he was a man of 

 wonderful versatility, and he had a wonderful fund of information. 

 He was a man with a national reputation. If I ran across anything 

 "I did not know I talked with Lugger. I knew I could get some- 

 thing out of him, and the people of the state appreciated him so 

 much that his fund of information was constantly being drawn upon 

 from every quarter of the state. 



I want to refer also to> William Mackintosh. I knew him in Mas- 

 sachusetts about twenty-two or twenty-three years ago. I knew the 

 family very well indeed. He came west for the health of his family. 

 He was always known as a progressive man in agriculture, a man 

 who was always in favor of education. He was interested in the 

 agricultural societies of Massachusetts. He had charge of some 

 of the best farms in the state of Massachusetts, and his work was al- 

 ways of a progressive nature. He was known for his genial nature, 

 always ready with a joke and a good turn, and I know that many 

 here who knew him as a good friend will miss him. He was not a 

 man to push himself to the front, but his quiet ways will be missed 

 by all who knew him. Speaking about educational matters, he was 

 one of the first to bring his son to the school of agriculture. 



I feel that I have taken more time than I ought to have taken, 

 but it is simply because my heart is full. I would like to talk about 

 the merits of these men, whom I can see almost as plainly as if they 

 were before me today, I feel I could talk about them a long time. 

 I feel that we have met a great loss, the state has met a great loss 

 in the death of these people, and our society does well to honor their 

 memory. 



Mr. S. M. Owen : Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen of the 

 Horticultural Society : I shall not attempt to speak of the life and 

 history of Mr. Harris. It seems to me that it would be a work of 

 supererogation at this time, for you all knew him so well, even if we 

 had the time to do so. I rather choose to give to you some of the 

 fruits of calm and deliberate reflection of my own that are born of 

 the relations of many years' standing that I had with this man. I 

 love more to talk of him as he was, as he appeared to me during the 

 years I knew him than to engage in anything in the way of histori- 

 cal reminiscences or recollections of him. 



