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W.E. Brimhall, St. Paul: Alexander, Haas, Marengo, Hyslop, Meader’s Wi 
ter, Soulard, Cions of Virginia Crab—6 ft. 4 in. in length and well ripened. __ 
R. L. Cottrell, Dover, Olmsted county: Talman Sweet, Fameuse, Mead 
Winter, and an unknown variety. 
A. W. Sias, Rochester: T'alman Sweet, Bethel, Fameuse, and an anne 
seedling of good quality; Wabasha—a seedling, season winter, of good size, 
pleasant sub-acid, the original tree twenty years old and claimed to be hardy and 
healthy: Minnesota Greening, a new variety of fair size and lively sub-acid 
flavor, in good condition at this time; tree only twelve years old; an unnamed 
seedling, Hyslop, Meader’s Winter, Orange, Soulard. 
T. M. Smith, St. Paul: two glasses of jelly—one of grape and chothepigle : 
grape and crab; a display of Rogers grapes, Nos. 4, 5 and 9, in good condition. 
J. S. Harris, La Crescent: three varieties of sweet potatoes, Southern Queen, 
Brazilian, and St. Louis Red; the size of some of these specimens render them not 
unworthy of display where this vegetable has its natural home. Mr. Harris also 
Pil i a Transcendent shoot of last year’s growth of the unusual Nites of 8 
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W. Elliot, Minneapolis: Cranberries, celery, pie plant, asparagus. 
S. H. Kenney, Morristown: Early Amber syrup, and sugar drained by pressure 
from same cane. 
C. F. Miller, Dundas: Sugar drained by centrifugal force and syrup from Early 
Amber Cane. 
These specimens of sugar are as good as or better than the New Orleans variety, 
and commend it at once to public favor. 
Twenty varieties of potatoes from the experimental gardens * the State Uni- 
versity contributed by Prof. C. Y. Lacy. 
In conclusion, your committee take advantage of their office to mildly rebuke 
the members of this society for the lack, we might say general, of interest dis- 
played in getting together this our annual winter display. It is true that the 
last year’s apple crop was light and where the grower had ten bushels two years 
ago, last year he had hardly one. But nevertheless 1f we had bethought ourselves 
to bring what we had and not left it to our fellows we would have madea 
display which would be wonderfully attractive, and be a practical assurance to 
the public, who look to our deliberations, that we are not a collection of fossils 
going over, year after year, the same old story of ‘‘ The Lost Arts,’ but that we 
are alive and moving; that what we theorize and profess, that we practice and of 
that we can and do display the proofs. 
Respectfully submitted, 
A. W. LATHAM, 
0. F. BRAND, 
A. W. SIAS. 
FINAL RESOLUTIONS. 
The report of the Committee on Final Resolutions was then 
called for. 
A motion was made that the report be adopted, spread on the 
records and copies furnished the Rochester papers. The motion 
was seconded. Mr. Elliot moved to amend so as to include the 
Olmsted County Agricultura: Society by name. The amendment 
was carried then the resulutions were passed unanimously. 
