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schemes that rob and demoralize the people, make arrangements 

 with them to have liberal premiums offered for horticultural 

 products and make a joint exhibition. Such au arrangement has 

 met with success in some places, and I think would in this coun- 

 ty. Some plan should be devised for getting more members and 

 getting the reports of the State Society now on hand among the 

 people. I therefore suggest that the next meeting be held at 

 Hutchinson some time during the winter. If we wish to have a 

 live society we must be full of enthusiasm. One or two can not 

 make of this-a successful society, but each must do well his al- 

 lotted task. I believe that when the people know what to plant 

 and how to care for them, the finest of small fruits will be found 

 in nearly everj' garden in the county. If one man can grow one- 

 hundred and twenty-five bushels of strawbei"ries per acre, as was 

 done by a farmer near Winsted the past season, certainly others 

 should be able to grow enough for their own use. A few years 

 since a cultivated berry was seldom seen in our home markets. 

 ]S"ow, as soon as spring opens, they begin to arrive from the 

 south and continue to come until about the middle of June when 

 our own producers furnish an ample supply. Tastes are rapidly 

 changing and the old time pork diet is giving way to the beauti- 

 tiful and delicious fruits. We have the soil and climate for the 

 production of the most highly colored and best flavored fruits 

 grown, as soon as we solve the cxuestion what to grow. 

 Then, fellow members, let us hope that this meeting is only a 

 forerunner of many more to follow and that from our delibera- 

 tions great good may come to the people of this county. 



FRUIT REPORT FROM WISCOXSIX. 



Menomoxie, Dunn County, Wis., Mae. 22, 1887. 

 S. D. ffiUmaii, Secretary, etc.: 



Dear Sir: Thinking that a report of trees, etc., from this sec- 

 tion might be of interest, I will state the following: 



We did not have a very trying winter this year, although the 

 thermometer sauk down to 40° and under and remained there 

 for about a week, but that is less than usual for three years. 

 I have just come in from examining the trees and I find the fol- 

 lowing, which I have growing in the nursery row, to be entirely 

 hardy: Lou, Florence, October, Martha (received from Peter M, 

 Gideon, Minnesota,) Whitney, Hibernal, Ostrokoft's Glass and 



