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that he cannot get up speed. If he could trade a great lot of his at- 

 tachments to Smith for wind, both mills would be improved ; the 

 Smith mill would run steadier, and the Harris luill would run easier 

 and faster and do better work. Concentration makes great men; ex" 

 pansion spoils them. No man, however great, can spread himself 

 all over creation \yithout becoming too thin somewhere. An ordi- 

 nary breath makes no perceptible impression. That same breath 

 concentrated creates a whistle, and a little more concentration pro- 

 duces a yell. We would not have men whistle and j^ell all the time 

 but we would have thein concentrate their thoughts and their wind 

 to a sufficient extent, if possible, to give reason and force to their 

 utterances, especiall}- when those utterances are thrust upon the 

 public. 



The professor's mill is a combination of the oiliness of the Elliot, 

 the adaptabilitj'of the Brand and the power of the Smith. Some of the 

 professors have much solid work to perform. These can get along 

 with the Elliot brand combine. With others, wind is their principal 

 stock in trade, and they must depend on the Smith end of the 

 machine. There is an old saj'ing, "much smoke, little fire," this trans- 

 formed for the professors would read, "little work, much wind.'' It 

 does not require much talent to make statement of well known facts 

 but when it is necessar}' to make something from nothing, or nearlj- 

 so, and fix the thing up and clothe it for respectable societ3-, there is 

 room for a livelj" imagination and a great amount of diversified tal- 

 ent. Whichever part of the mill the professor ties to, he should add 

 a few hobbies of his own and then pull himself together and blow — 

 yes, blow for all he is worth. The average professor that cannot 

 blow a good, sensible, strong blast is not worth a continental. 



I hope my personal allusions have been kindly received. If not, I 

 will saj' that I am here and believe it is a sneak of a tnan who is not 

 willing to face the music and receive his just deserts. I expect to do 

 that here and hereafter. There is one other application of wind to 

 which I will allude. Men frequently fail in great financial enter- 

 prises because they cannot raise the wind. All persons thus 

 troubled should attend the winter meetings of the Minnesota State 

 Horticultural Society, and they will find as inuch wind to the square 

 inch as in any other spot on the globe. 



EVERGREENS. 



ERIK ANDERSON, LAKE PARK. 



Ornamental trees suffered from last winter (1893-4) as much as ap- 

 ples. I have thirty varieties of evergreens and something over a 

 hundred varieties of deciduous trees, raised mostly from seed, and 

 man}' from seed I got from sixt5' degrees north latitude, in Sweden. 

 Nearlj- all have been sick this summer, and Scotch pines and Nor- 

 waj" spruces that had grown to be from twelve to sixteen feet high 

 froze clear down; and those not killed have not grown over four or 

 five inches this summer; but all the native trees have stood the win- 

 ter very well. The white pine has grown fully two feet this summer, 

 but I think the hardiest and best of the pine famil}^ for this part of 

 the country is the gray pine (Pinus Banksiana). 



You can possiblj' draw some conclusions as to this winter-killing 

 from this fact, that the fall of 1892 froze up verj- drj'. 



