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sion we have been trying to secure for a good many years without 

 success. I know also that we are making some substantial progress 

 in fruit growing. Throughout the entire state there seems to be a 

 new awakening, and I think this has been largely brought about 

 through the medium of this society. The conditions that prevail 

 throughout the western parts of Minnesota are almost identical 

 with those that exist in our part of the state, and through the cour- 

 tesy of your society we have laid the foundation for future work in 

 our state. I did not come prepared to speak, but simply to listen. 

 I had the pleasure of attending your meeting last year, and I am 

 sure I was well repaid, and I am certain also that every person is 

 who attends these annual gatherings, whether in this state or any 

 other state where the conditions are so thoroughly discussed and 

 the way paved for the overcoming of the difficulties that confront 

 the horticulturist. It seems to me the people cannot afford to miss 

 the meetings. If I can be of any service in any way toi the people 

 of South Dakota by giving them the information I gain here I shall 

 have accomplished a great deal. I do not wish to take up your time 

 any further, but what I learn here I shall try to impart to our people. 



The President : We are very glad to hear these words of cheer 

 and hear of these signs of progress from our sister state to the .west, 

 and now we will hear something from the east. I need not intro- 

 duce to you Mr. Kellogg, because he seems like one of our own 

 members, but we want tO' hear just a word from him this afternoon. 



Mr. GeO'. J. Kellogg (Wis.) : I am not going up on the plat- 

 form and show myself like Barnes did, because I am not so hand- 

 some. I am troubled the same way Philips is, I talk too much. I do 

 regret that you did not give us more time on small fruits, and I 

 would suggest that any one who wishes to put in a criticism or offer 

 a suggestion do so by putting it in writing and handing it to the 

 secretary that it may be published in the report. I think in that way 

 you can get a good deal of valuable information that would other- 

 wise be lost. I wanted to butt in three or four times on straw- 

 berries, but there was no time, and I do- not want to take the time 

 now to tell you all I know. (Laughter.) 



The President : I hardly dare to call on Mr. Philips since what 

 Mr. Kellogg has told us, but if he will tell us one story and then 

 promise to sit down we will give him a chance. (Laughter.) 



Mr. A. J. Philips (Wis.):' I don't need any introduction; I 

 can do the introducing myself. I would like to say a word that I 

 would have preferred to say while the young people were here, and 

 that is about that tree you see standing there. (Indicating.) But 

 Prof. Green is going to take it over to the school and put it in his 

 museum. I have talked top-working considerably in years gone 

 by, and I have had many different questions asked about grafting 

 and budding, and I would say again I would use the Virginia every 

 time. One man said in an Iowa paper a year ago that there is noth- 

 ing gained by top-working, and said he would like to see some evi- 

 dence of its making the tree hardier or of its being any advantage 

 whatever. I told him this, that I planted a row of Wealthy, and then 

 a row of Virginia crab and top-worked them with Wealthy. Those 

 crab trees have been growing eighteen years, and the Wealthy on 



