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the shears only. In the fall of 1885 that tree was dead. He made 

 the remark: "I have 1,000 apple trees in my orchard, and I have it 

 all pruned now." His experience in pruning that one tree was suffi- 

 cient. 



I saw a grove of cottonwoods that shut the wind from a wind- 

 mill ; the owner cut the tops off about fifteen feet from the ground 

 and let new tops grow. Those that he cut off early enough so they 

 dried and closed the pores of the wood before the sap started in the 

 spring were a success, those cut later were a failure. 



Where two limbs cross and rub in an orchard one of them should 

 be removed ; that is about all the pruning I do in an orchard. 



We find by growing the right varieties of cherries we are as sure 

 of the crop of them as we are of plums. Russian mulberries set out 

 eight feet each way, not in a single row but several rows in width, 

 will help feed the birds. 



A farmer cannot succeed in raising good crops without plenty 

 of hard work and common sense. 



The same things are needed to make a successful fruit grower. 



A PLEA FOR FOREST ADMINISTRATION. 



S. M. OWEN, MINNEAPOLIS. 



Mr. President of the State Forestry Association, Ladies and 

 Gentlemen: — The objects sought to be attained by this association 

 have been the subject of much thought and effort on my part for 

 many years, and it will please me now if I can say a few words 

 commendatory of its past efforts, and encourage it to continue in 

 well doing, even if it has become an outcast from the legislative favor 

 that was once grudgingly and parsimoniously given to it. 



In the past, efforts in behalf of the interests of forestry have been 

 made under circumstances that would have discouraged any in- 

 dividual or organization that was not inspired by a spirit of per- 

 sistence and a faith that saw clearly that the time had at last come 

 in this country when forest preservation and restoration must be 

 contemplated in a broad and unselfish spirit, must not be viewed 

 from the standpoint of our own immediate interest or profit but from 

 that of the generations that are to come after us, and for whom it 

 is our duty to provide to the extent of our ability. Especially is it 

 our duty to do our utmost to secure to posterity as abundant forests 

 as we can, for forest growth is something for which the same genera- 

 tion cannot sow the seed and reap the full harvest. 



The members of this association, past and present, are and have 



