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Minnesota STATE HorTICULTURAL SOCIETY. §3 
THURSDAY MORNING. 
The meeting was called to order by the President at 9 o’clock. 
COMMITTEE ON FINAL RESOLUTIONS. | 
- Messrs. Latham, Hollister and Miller were appointed a committee 
on Final Resolutions. 
REPORT ON FORESTRY LAWS. 
The committee on Congressional tree-planting and other,forestry 
laws, reported through its chairman as follows: 
Your committee to whom was referred the duty of reporting such amendments 
to the congressional timber culture act, as we demand necessary to best promote 
and encourage the growth of forests on the western prairies, agree in recommend- 
ing that said act of congress be so amended as to embrace the following points : 
First, That every legal sub-division of 80 acres of government prairie land be 
made subject to entry under the provisions of said act. 
Second, That 10 acres of land covered by any timber entry be planted and 
kept in a healthy growing condition. 
Third, That the trees be planted not more than four feet apart each way. 
Fourth, That at the time of proving up there shall be not less than 900 trees 
standing on each acre, and that the rows of trees shall be not more than 8 feet 
apart, and the trees standing in each row not less than four feet apart in the row. 
Fifth, That the entire amount of ten acres of breaking be done in the month 
of June next succeeding the date of entry. 
Sixth, That said ten acres of breaking shall be thoroughly subdued by two 
years of cultivation after the season of breaking, and that the third year after 
breaking the ground the trees shall be planted. 
Seventh, That at the time of proving up the trees shall average ten feet high. | 
Eighth, That in the event of any failure to break and cultivate and plant as 
hereinbefore specified, the land so entered shall be subject to entry under the 
provisions either of the timber culture act or the homestead act. 
Ninth, That the claimant be allowed to propagate his trees either from seeds 
and cuttings or by transplanting. 
Tenth, That the claimant be allowed to plant his trees in groves of not less 
than two acres in each grove, or in belts not less than three rods wide on any 
part of the land. 
Respectfully submitted, 
L. B. Hopaszs, 
O. F. Brann. 
Your committee to whom was referred the memorial to congress of the commit- 
tee of the American Nurserymens’ Association, would recommend a hearty en- 
dorsement of said memorial by this society. We recognize the fact that the 
