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State has a farm there. Mr. Dartt is a practical nurseryman 

 who lives there and has shown by the premiums he has taken 

 from time to time that he has the skill to handle such a station, 

 and he would be the right man to superintend it. It is import- 

 ant that these experiments in fruit culture should be carried on 

 in different parts of the State. 



Mr. Pearce. I cannot exactly understand how Mr. Dartt can 

 take all those premiums and raise hundreds of bushels of apples 

 and still live where apples won't grow. 



President Elliot. I did not know this resolution was to be 

 brought up, but it seems to me a move in the right direction. If 

 we have a school at Owatouna for indigent children, under the 

 instruction and care of the State and fostered by it, it seems to 

 me just the proper place to put an experimental station and a 

 good place to teach the rudiments of horticulture in a practical 

 way. I don't know of any man in that section of the State bet- 

 ter qualified than our friend Dartt to undertake the work; he 

 has had eighteen years experience there and would do better 

 than a person who had no experience. 



Mr. Cutler inquired if this farm was not in the city where 

 boys would be likely to gather the fruit. 



President Elliot said the boys were supposed to be under 

 restraint; while at Minnetonka people came there for pleasure 

 and there was little protection from the fruit being stripped on 

 the experiment fruit farm there. 



Mr. Stubbs thought this a move in the right direction, and 

 had heard no reasons urged why the new station should not be 

 established. If Mr. Gideon gave up the fruit farm there should 

 be another one selected elsewhere. 



Mr. Sias said he would not wish to do anything that would 

 interfere with the stability of the station at Lake Minnetonka, 

 or have anything done to jeopardize or supplant it in any way. 



The resolution was then unanimously adopted. 



The following paper was then read: 



