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very practical. The credit of atlapting thi.s fibrin of a strainer to 

 this purpose is entirely due to Mr. R. S. Mackintosh, of the division 

 of horticulture. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. C. L. Smith: What do you think about transplanting the 

 jack pine? 



Prof. Green: I think the jack pine will do very well to trans- 

 plant. 



Mr. Clarence Wedge: Judge Moyer speaks of my sending 

 him a dozen while pine. I would like to ask him if they 

 grew V 



Judge L. R. Moyer: I planted them, but not one of them 

 grew. I do not think it was any fault of the pine itself, but I 

 think it was on account of the prevalence of the white grub. I 

 think man}' of them died from the attack of the white grub. 



Col. J. H. Stevens: I merely wish to say that I can certainly 

 see the great benefit this experiment station, of which I am 

 happy to say Prof. Green is at the head, is to the state of Min- 

 nesota and the entire Northwest. The paper he has just read 

 is fraught with so much importance to the future of this state 

 that it cannot be too highly valued. We are certainly a fortu- 

 nate people to have such an institution in our midst, where 

 every one can examine and know what is useful and also re- 

 ceive instruction. (Applause.) 



Mr. Smith: There is one thing I have been pounding away 

 at in regard to this experiment station; I want to emphasize it 

 right here, and I wish every member would make a note of it. 

 There is a most unsatisfactory feature connected with the ex- 

 periment station, and that is the neglect of the people of the 

 state of Minnesota to take advantage of the information given 

 out from the station in the form of bulletins. These bulletins 

 that Prof. Green speaks of will be sent free to any citizen of 

 Minnesota that wants them. There is no expense attached in 

 sending them, they are sent free to any one applying for them, 

 and they are most valuable bulletins, filled with the most im- 

 portant information, and yet so few people call for them. Now, 

 ■what I would like to ask of the members of this society is that 

 when they go home they tell their neighbors about these bulle- 

 tins, and ask their neighbors to write to Prof. Green for these 

 bulletins and use the information they contain. If we can edu- 

 cate the people of Minnesota to depend upon the bulletins for 

 their information ui)on horticultural subjects, instead of on the 

 agents who come around to sell trees, they will have solved the 

 most important problem in Minnesota horticulture. We ap- 



