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Sept. 12. Jewell Nursery Co., Lake City, 2 boxes plums : Hawkeye and 

 Rollingstone ; i box Okabena. 



Sept. 12. Dewain Cook, Jeffers, 24 quarts Hawkeye. 



Sept. 12. Mrs. E. Cross, Sauk Rapids, i box seedlings. 



Sept. 12. A. N. Wright, Owatonna, i box Okabena. 



Sept. 12. Aug. Logernig, Long Prairie, i small box apples. 



Sept. 12. J. A. Howard, Hammond, i barrel Gilbert apples. 



Sept. 13. J. P. Andrews, Faribault, 2 boxes Wealthy. 



Sept. 13. W. E. Fryer, Mantorville, 8 quarts plums : Stoddard, Comfort, 

 Surprise, Wolf, Forest Garden, Mankato, Rockford. 



Sept. 13. George C. Simpson, Northfield, i box Patten's G. 



Sept. 13. E. C. Reed, Morristown, 4 plates apples : Okabena, Wealthy, 



Peerless, N. W. Greening. 



Sept. 14. Dewain Cook, Windom, 24 quarts Stoddard. 



Sept. 14. B. P. Christenson, Hutchinson, 8 quarts plums : Surprise and 

 De Soto. 



Sept. 15. H. L. Crane, 16 baskets grapes : Moore's Early, Janesville. 



Sept. 15. C. J. Orton & Son, Marietta, 16 quarts plums: De Soto, 

 Weaver, Surprise. 



Sept. 15. A. D. Leach, Excelsior, 2 bushels apples: University; i basket 

 peaches. 



Sept. 15. W. W. Hart, Delavan, i large box Wealthy. 



Sept. 15. S. H. Drum, Waseca, i box Hibernal. 



Sept. 15. John Bisbee, Madelia, l box apples: University, Good Peasant, 

 Peter. 



Sept. 15. T. E. Perkins, Red Wing, i barrel and i box apples. 



Sept. 15. Frank B. Howland, Northfield, 16 quarts plums. 



Sept. 15. Fannie N. Bertha, 16 quarts plums : Harrison's Peach. 



Sept. 16. H. H. Heins, Jordan, i box apples : Okabena, Wealthy. 



Sept. 16. W. H. Eddy, Howard Lake, i box Wealthy ; 16 quarts plums : 

 Surprise, De Soto, Wyant. 



Sept. 16. J. P. Andrews, Faribault, 8 quarts plums : Wyant, Hawkeye, 

 Lohman, Wolf, New Ulm. 



Sept. 16. Dewain Cook, Jeffers, 24 quarts plums : Hawkeye, New Ulm, 

 Wolf. 



Sept. 17. Wm. Oxford, Freeburg, i box apples. 



Sept. 17. Minn. Exp. Station, 8 baskets grapes (5 varieties). 



Sept. 17. W. L. Parker, Farmington, i barrel apples. 



Sept. 17. T. E. Perkins, Red Wing, i bbl. seedling apples (85 varieties). 



Sept. 17. A. B. Lyman, Excelsior, i box seedling apples. 



CONSERVING THE FORESTS. 



MR. S. M. OWEN, MINNEAPOLIS, 



Last summer I spent a few weeks in northeastern Canada, 

 getting as far north as 250 to 300 miles north and east of Quebec, 

 for instance, and during my travels I fell in company with and 

 made the acquaintance of a gentleman who is the owner of a 

 million acres of land in that country. A million acres of land ! 

 That is something over 1,500 square miles, as you know. He 

 was a very modest, unassuming gentleman. I was with him a 

 fortnight and became very much attached to him. I asked him 

 one day about the character of those lands. They are covered 

 now with a forest growth almost entirely and very largely 

 spruce. I asked him what those lands would be worth after the 

 timber was taken from him, whether they would be agricultural 



