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marked road and you get to the place you Started from, and you 

 will have had a nine-mile walk. If you want to go four miles you 

 follow the yellow, and for a three-mile walk you follow some other 

 color. It is really a very nice arrangement. They take great pride 

 in keeping those things up. They had there a certain musical in- 

 strument called a "bombass." It is a stick about three feet long 

 with a ring at the bottom with a lot of little bell's on, and when you 

 strike it against anything it will jingle like a tambourine. Then 

 it has a cord as large as a small clothes line from the top to the bot- 

 tom, and on that they put a pig's bladder, blowing it up about as 

 big as a football. Then they had an instrument made of wood about 

 three feet long with notches sawed in. They would strike it on 

 the lloor and draw the stick across the string, and it would make a 

 nice little jingle. Of course we were interested, and the old ober- 

 forester said it was one of the oldest instruments known and the 

 only one of the kind. He made the remark that now he supposed 

 the Americans would have the biggest bombass in the world. 

 (Laughter.) I have not heard anything about its being produced, 

 but suppose it will be. 



RESOLUTIONS ABOUT TRIAL STATIONS. 



(Adopted unanimously at late meeting of Minn. State. Hort. So.) 



To the Honorable Board of Regents, State University of Minnesota : 



Resolved : That as an association representing great agricultural 

 and horticultural interests in this state we recognize in the Agricul- 

 tural Department of the University of Minnesota a great aid to the 

 advancement of our state agricultural and horticultural interests 

 generally, and we thoroughly endorse the educational work it is now 

 doing. 



Resolved : That we are greatly pleased at the liberal treatment 

 which this department of our university received at the hands of 

 our legislature last winter. 



Resolved : That we are surprised to learn that some of the mem- 

 bers of the Board of Regents of our State University are opposed to 

 the continuance of the Owatonna Tree Station. 



Resolved : That we heartily endorse the work of the Owatonna 

 Tree Station and are opposed to its being discontinued unless the 

 work now being done there shall be removed to a more suitable loca- 

 tion where it can be continued on a much larger scale and in 

 a manner commensurate with the growing horticultural interests of 

 the state of Minnesota. 



Resolved : That we consider the region of Lake Minnetonka, 

 on account of its natural advantages, nearness to the central station 

 and ease of access therefrom, as especially well located for an orchard 

 trial station, and would call your attentr&n also to the fact that the 

 expense of installing a station there would be much more than met 

 by the profits accruing to the Board of Regents from the sale of the 

 property formerly used as an orchard trial station in that region. 



