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listening to anything that is so Uttle entertaining. This is my first 

 meeting with you. I used to be a resident of this state some years 

 ago, but in 1879 I took it into my head to go farther west to grow 

 up with the country, and since that time we have had something of 

 a "hustle" to maintain a livelihood in that country and do something 

 in the line of horticulture. Of course, we have made some advance, 

 but we are not where you are, but if you will give us some thirty 

 years more, or the length of time you have been working, I think 

 we can show you that we have accomplished something. At the 

 present time our society has not been recognized by the state, and 

 we are only an auxiliary society of the Minnesota society. We are 

 thankful to you for that privilege. It has been a great benefit to 

 us, and if we can do anything to help you in any way by sugges- 

 tions or experiments we shall be very glad to do so. When we had 

 Mr. Gibbs with us we had a great deal of help, and I want to say 

 that I am glad to meet him here and see him looking so well. I 

 am glad to be with you, but I do not wish to take up any more of 

 your valuable time. 



The President : Thank you for that, Mr. Whiting, and we hope 

 you will come again. When you speak about working together 

 with Minnesota and what a pleasure it is, I will say as one of the 

 girls did in my school at Hutchinson, "The pleasure is mutual." 



Prof. Green: Tell the story, Professor. (Laughter.) 



The President : The pupils were rushing to their seats after 

 recess, they did not want to be behindhand, and in going by one of 

 the girls a boy caught a button of his coat in one of the meshes of 

 the open work crocheted shawl of the girl, and it did not seem to 

 let loose, and while they were endeavoring to become untangled the 

 scholars were looking around to see what was going on ; they did 

 not understand the conditions, and I thought I must say something 

 to relieve the situation. I said, "Willie, you seem to be attached to 

 Laura." He looked down and got red in the face like a great awk- 

 ward boy and had nothing to say, as they say a boy is never quite 

 so smart as a girl in repartee. He looked sheepish and blushed and 

 did not say a word, but not so Laura, she sung out pertly as you 

 please, "The attachment seems to be mutual." (Laughter.) So I 

 will say our attachment seems to be mutual as far as our side is 

 concerned at any rate. 



The President : W^e are all anxious to know what the future of 

 the apple will be in Minnesota, and, as the next subject on the pro- 

 gram indicates, evidently Mr. Taylor knows all about it, and I will 

 now call on Mr. Taylor. 



Mr. W. L. Taylor, of Howard Lake, then read a paper on the 

 subject of "The Future of the Apple in Minnesota." (See index.) 



Discussion. 



The President : In the next number on our program Mr. Wil- 

 fert will tell us how to raise big apples and lots of them, and how 

 winter-killing can be prevented. 



"Winter-killing Can Be Prevented," was the title of the paper 

 read by Mr. Andrew Wilfert. of Cleveland. (See index.) 



Discussion. 



