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boat load; and I generally insisted on getting the freight before 

 we started. My idea was the trees would not live in this country; 

 that was over twenty years ago. Thousands of trees were sent 

 out here from New York state, and I presume very few of them 

 are yet alive. In order to succeed in this work there must be 

 persistent effort. 



Mr. D. Day. Mr. President, I wish to say that I approve the 

 course Mr. Gideon has taken in regard to sending out trees, and I 

 would like to try some of them myself, and some of my neighbors 

 also. I think if farmers would take care of their trees they would 

 succeed; they need care as well as anything else. Trees will grow 

 with proper care. 



Mr. Cutler moved as the sense of the Society that the proposed 

 plan of Mr. Gideon, for the distribution of seedling trees, be ap- 

 proved, which motion was adopted. 



Mr. Gilpatrick said much depended upon the cultivation of 

 trees as to whether one would succeed. These experiment sta- 

 tions should report as to their manner of culture. He favored 

 deep planting as a protection from winter killing. 



Mr. Brand. In the orchard where the Peerless stands the 

 "Wealthy in 1884 and before that had borne a bushel and a half 

 to a tree, but a good many of the trees were killed a year ago 

 last winter. 



QUESTION BOX. 



The question box being called for the following was read: 

 "Does any member know where the nurseries of L. L. May & 

 Co. are located? They are doing business in Iowa selling fruit 

 trees and other stock leaving cards with address 'L. L. May & 

 Co., Nurserymen, St. Paul, Minn.' " 



Mrs. Stager, of Sauk Rapids. Mr. President, I came down 

 here to speak about that same thing. Last year and the year 

 before there were agents through there selling fruit trees and 

 different kinds of plants at high prices, and some of my neigh- 

 bors bought of them and found the stock to be almost ?rorthless; 

 and the agents told them they had a farm near St. Paul where 

 they raised their stuff. They could hardly get rid of these 

 agents. Last year they brought around Sharpless strawberries 

 and the agent wanted to sell me some of them. I told him I 

 didn't want any; he said he would send me fifty and they came. 

 A good many had signed for things; and instead of sending to 

 the agent they sent to a lawyer there and he made every one 

 take what he had signed for except myself, and the most of them 



