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10. That we most earnestly recommend to the governors of the various 

 states that they urge upon the legislatures of their respective states the import- 

 ance of the preservation of the forests where they already exist, and to urge 

 and encourage such legislation as will promote the more general planting and 

 cultivating of trees and forests. 



11. That there should be no rigid ruling as to the varieties of timber to be 

 planted or cultivated upon a " timber-culture " claim. 



12. That the commissioner of agriculture be authorized by Congress to ap- 

 ply, in his discretion, such sum or sums as he may see fit, from the appropria- 

 tion for the forestry division of his department for the encouragement of na- 

 tional and local forestry associations. 



13. That it is the sense of this forestry congress that the legislatures of the 

 states should provide for the establishment and maintenance of experimental 

 timber-culture stations, to the end that there may be secured a knowledge of 

 the highest adaptability of diflfereut varieties of timber to the different soils> 

 and that the taxable wealth of the state may be increased to the material 

 lessening of the rate of taxation. 



EXPERIMENT STATION AT OWATONNA. 



AN ACT TO ESTABLISH AN EXPERIMENTAL FRUIT, FOREST AND 

 ORNAMENTAL TREE STATION. 



Be U enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: 



Section 1. That an experimental station be and is hereby 

 established on the State School Farm at Owatonna. in this State, 

 for the purpose of producing new and valuable varieties of fruit 

 trees, thoroughly testing promising varieties we now have, and 

 securing reliable reports in l-egard to fruit, forest and orna- 

 mental trees best adapted to the State. 



Sec 2. That said station shall be under the general super- 

 vision of the board of regents of the State University, who shall, 

 with the advice of the president and secretary of the State Hor- 

 ticultural Society, appoint a superintendent, who shall report to 

 the board of regents as they may direct, and who shall report to 

 the State Horticultural Society in person at each annual winter 

 meeting thereof. 



Sec. 3. That all products of said station shall be the exclusive 

 property of the State, and all surplus shall be disposed of as the 

 board of regents may direct. 



Sec. 4. That said board of regents is hereby authorized to set 

 apart and appropriate from any fund at their disposal for such 



