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called "Morris Bill," and to do any other acts and things necessary 

 or advisable to render said law operative and effective. 



Resolved, That the secretary of this association is hereby in- 

 structed to at once send a copy of these resolutions to each of our 

 said representatives. 



Pres. Loring : We also have with us a gentleman from a neigh- 

 boring state who is deeply interested in this question of forestry, 

 and who is doing valuable work in his own state. We would like 

 to hear from Rev. C. S. Harrison, of Nebraska. (See index.) 



Pres. Loring: I entirely overlooked the name of a gentleman 

 who is down on the program and who is no stranger to you. A 

 forestry meeting would not be complete unless we heard from Prof. 

 Green. (See index for remarks by Prof. S. B. Green.) 



Pres. Loring : This concludes our program, and I think we have 

 had a very interesting meeting. It has been so to me, at least. 



The report of the secretary and treasurer was then read, after 

 which the election of officers took place with the following result : 



President, Chas. M. Loring, Minneapolis. 



First vice president, S. M. Owen, Minneapolis. 



Second vice president, O. C. Gregg, Lynd. 



Secretary and treasurer, W. T. Cox, St. Anthony Park. 



On motion of Prof. Green the meeting adjourned. 



FRIDAY MORNING SESSION. 



The meeting was called to order at 9 130 o'clock by the president 

 pro tempore. Prof. Green. 



The Chairman : There are several committees to report, but 

 as they are not yet ready we will take up the program of papers. 

 The general subject for this morning is "Nursery Topics," and the 

 first number on the program is a paper by Mr. Roy Underwood. 



Mr. Roy Underwood, of Lake City, then read a paper on the 

 subject of "Apple Stocks: the Best Kind, and the Best Method of 

 Growing." (See index.) 



The Chairman : As some of these subjects are so intimately as- 

 sociated I will call for Mr. Collman's and Prof. Hansen's papers 

 before taking up the discussion. In this way we will save time 

 and discuss the subject all at one time. 



"Whole Root versus Piece Root Grafts" was the subject of the 

 paper presented by Mr. A. F. Collman, of Corning, Iowa. (See 

 index.) 



This paper was immediately followed by one from Prof. N. E. 

 Hansen, of Brookings, S. D., entitled "The Pyrus Baccata as a 

 Stock in the Nursery Row and Elsewhere." (See index.) 



Discussion. 



The Chairman : We have given a long time to the discussion 

 of these papers, and the discussion has been very interesting, too, 

 but we have other papers on the program that ought to be valuable 

 and bring out a similar discussion, I think I will call on Mr. Taylor 

 for his paper. 



Mr. W. L. Taylor, of Litchfield, then read a paper on "Making 

 and Planting the Root-Graft." (See index.) 



