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Mr. Dartt. They say it is not the fall that hurts. It is the 

 ^uddeu stoj). [Laughter.] That is about the position taken 

 here. They reason that it is not the hanging that killed a man, 

 but the breaking of the neck, or the stopping of the breath. 

 I think if our trees could escape this extreme cold they would 

 probably be all right. 



Mr. Pearce. One word: I dug trees the fall before that 

 winter of 1873 and buried them, in the spring they were all 

 dead. The ground scarcely froze at all during that winter, for 

 potatoes came up in the spring that had been in the ground 

 over winter. This is a matter of history. 



Mr. Smith. I put 3,000 trees in the cellar the sixth of Decem- 

 ber and they were all dead in the spring. 



Mr. Harris. It was root-killing that caused the injury to 

 trees that winter. Xorthern Spy showed no injury from the 

 winter, but the trees were killed at the root. I know in our 

 ocality we attributed the difficulty to the long-continued and 

 severe drouth. 



On motion the meeting adjourned till 7 o'clock. 



EYEXIisTG SESSION. 

 Tuesday, Jan. 18. 18S7. 



The meeting was called to order by President Elliot. 



The following committee was named on Revision of Fruit 

 Lists: A. W. Sias, M. Pearce, E. H. S. Dartt. 



Mr. Smith. There is one thing I would like to speak of, to 

 throw out a suggestion to members of the Society at this time. 

 I noticed an article in the loica Somedead, in the editorial col- 

 umns, on the subject of protecting farm buildings with 

 windbreaks, recommending evergreens, and, as a temporary 

 expedient, the growing of the Russian Mulberry, to be followed 

 with Scotch Pine, the walnut and other valuable timber. I 

 want to protest against this, for I must "say I am not pleased 

 with the Russian Mulberry. I have been well over the State 

 the past year, investigated the timber-culture question, 

 ('Specially as regards the question of shelter belts, and I believe 

 the most valuable for that purpose is the common White Willow. 

 It can be grown on the i^rairie the best of anything I have found. 

 It is unjust that farmers should be advised to plant out Catalpas 



