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was fifty years ago. That we live better, are happier, and are 

 as moral and religious as those who lived in the good ''old 

 times." 



Then let us each use our influence to induce others to culti- 

 vate fruit of all kinds suitable to our soil and climate, and in 

 such abundance, that the entire family may enjoy it, either 

 fresh or canned, every day in the year. Such a supply would 

 mean better health for old and young, less doctors' bills, less 

 butchers' bills, and the good wives and mothers might soon 

 banish from their tables and storerooms those everlasting and 

 indigestible pies and cakes over which they now spend so many 

 weary hours. Let them spend the time thus saved in interesting 

 reading and pleasant recreation, and it would go far towards 

 bringing back their faded beauty and their youth. 



Farmers who have not tried this course, begin at once, and 

 when you order choice fruit trees or plants, don't forget to order 

 a few nice rose bushes and choice flower seeds for your wives 

 and daughters. You will surely find the acre devoted to fruits 

 and flowers, and well cared for, the best paying acre on your 

 farm, and you will wonder how you ever managed to get along 

 in any other way. Meet together in each others' homes, com- 

 pare notes and profit by each others' experience, and you will 

 in this way gather up sunshine to cheer you in some of the dark 

 days of which we must all have our share. 



The following report was then presented by Prof. Oestlund: 



ENTOMOLOGIST'S EEPOET. 



By Prof. O. W. Oestlund, Minneapolis. 



Having the honor of being elected your entomologist at the 

 last annual meeting, it now becomes my duty to report on such 

 work in this direction that may be of interest or value to you. 

 Time and circumstances have not allowed any special observa- 

 tions to be undertaken during the year on insects injurious to 

 to fruit trees, and therefore of special interest to the horticul- 

 turist. My correspondence with members of this Society, as 

 well as other fruit growers of the state, in reference to entomol- 

 ogy, has not been very extensive either; but I would ascribe 

 this in a great part to the fact that I am as yet almost a stranger 

 to most of you, and that what is being done in this direction is 

 as yet very little known to the people of this state. As this is 



