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asking the legislature to take action looking to the support and 

 equipment of our experiment station; the results would inure 

 greatly to the benefit of the people of the state. In view of the 

 importance of this matter I submit to you if it is not proper that 

 this work should be urged to its fullest degree of development; 

 give us $5,000 and we will show better results. We want intel- 

 ligent laborers; we have to label everything carefully but we 

 don't want to put a "bell on a burbank;" they should know 

 these different varieties at sight, and be able to pick out a Weal- 

 thy from five hundred other varieties. Clreat care is required 

 in making these experiments in order to be of value. It is not 

 expected that it will be profitable work except in the results in 

 general. 



Mr. J. M. Smith. In regard to the Black Walnut my impres- 

 sion is they will be found to grow well for a few years and then 

 to fail; this has been the experience of some friends of mine. 

 Their native habitat is further south where the winters are 

 warmer. 



Prof. Porter. I am a little doubtful of success with them, but 

 we propose in a small way to continue to experiment, 



Mr, Sias, I have found a black walnut tree in this State that 

 was about four feet in diameter, and there were many of smaller 

 size. 



Mr. C. L. Smith. There are many of them growing in Eice 

 County, But I have tried to raise trees from Illinois seed and 

 failed, 



Mr, Hoxie, They grow well in Brown County, Wisconsin, and 

 I have seen them i^lanted by the roadside, 



Mr, Gould, Black Walnut does well in some sections of the 

 State, It grows very readily in Le Sueur County. A party 

 at Waterville gathered twenty-five bushels of nuts one season. 



President Elliot said he had had experience with the Black 

 Walnut; it was necessary to use Northern seed to propagate 

 from. There used to be a good deal of the timber in our native 

 forests. 



The following interesting paper was contributed by Mr. Lue- 

 dloff in lieu of a report on fruit growing: 



