ANNUAL MEETING, I9O2. 483 



The President : We have now about nine minutes left before ad- 

 journment, and we have just time enough left to call on Mr. Kel- 

 logg and Mr. Philips to occupy a little time and tell us about how 

 the battle is going in our sister state. There is a little opening here 

 now, and I will call on Mr. Kellogg, who needs no introduction to 

 you. He has been here many times, all the old members are ac- 

 quainted with him. and they know something about the great work 

 he has been doing in Wisconsin, and I am certain that he can say 

 a word that will help us. I want to tell him that we are all very 

 glad to see him and to hear him^ say a few words. 



j\Ir. Geo. J. Kellogg (Wisconsin) : Philips and I can always 

 talk ; tlie only trouble is to keep us still. I came up here to learn 

 something. We are not so stirred up about this seedling ques- 

 tion you are bringing up at each annual meeting. You have put 

 up a thousand dollars that never will be paid, but see what it is do- 

 ing, and yet you w'ill not let us in. 



The Secretary : Mr, Kellogg is a Wisconsin man. They have 

 not got anything of the kind, but all we are asking for is an apple 

 that fills the requirements, and we will let them in. 



Mr. Kellogg : In regard to this point of covering raspberries. 

 We do not have to cover down our way as you do here, but I 

 imagine that covering by this machine that has been mentioned 

 here is a simple process, and it can be completed and improved until 

 it works perfectly. The best plan we have of covering is to use 

 three Dutchmen, one with a six tined fork to bend them down and 

 two to cover. There is one thought that came to me when this ad- 

 vertising man spoke. He said fruit men are good honest men. I 

 do not believe there is a real genuine horticulturist that either 

 smokes, chews, drinks or swears. 



Mr. O. M. Lord: How about lying? (Laughter.) 



The President: Now there are left just five minutes for 

 -Brother Philips. Mr, Philips, do you think you could talk just a 

 few minutes? 



Mr. A. J. Philips (Wisconsin) : My wife says it's a very 

 hard job. (Laughter.) 1 am glad I am here, and I invited 



Kellogg to come up. He is not a delegate and I am not, but I 

 am a member of this society and always like to attend the meet- 

 ings, and I have always picked up something good. I invited 

 Brother Kellogg to come up here, and he has brought his wife 

 with him. Of course, he will say something foolish. (Laughter.) 

 I think he always does, but we overlook that down in Wisconsin. 

 I have got more faith than he has, because I think we will get 

 that thousand dollars. I want to say a word right here that I 

 wanted to say when Air. White got through. Mr. Wliite touched 

 upon one thing which it seems to me is of the greatest importance 

 to teach our people in Minnesota and Wisconsin and the United 

 States generally, and that is to teach them to consume more fruit. 

 It drives away crime, makes better children in school. I can tell 

 after children have been in school three or four weeks whether 

 thev are meat eaters or fruit eaters. Children that eat fruit are 



