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We are aware that not many years ago the general opinion was 

 that no fruit at all could be grown with success in Minnesota, and he 

 who dared to diflfer from this was laughed at and considered to be 

 very short-sighted. Since that time your Society has come to the 

 front, and it has been proven repeatedly that fruit can be grown, and 

 that with profit in our State. But still the general feeling is too 

 much of indifference on the subject, and the industry remains in the 

 hands of a few. It is not until you have removed this indifi*erence 

 and our people have been educated up to recognize and to feel the im- 

 portance of horticulture that we will derive the full benefit that is to 

 be derived from it. 



I might put before you some of the benefits that are to be de- 

 rived from the study of entomology, as they are mauy, practical and 

 important. But I shall stop right here and only ask that you will 

 continue to recognize entomology as an important subject for your 

 Society, and give it that attention and sympathy that it at present 

 needs. The time should soon come when entomology will be recog- 

 nized not only at our State University, and especially at our College 

 of Agriculture, but also by all the other colleges and schools of the 

 State. There is also room for the State, as such, to recognize the 

 practical importance of entomology, by the appointment of a State 

 entomologist as many of the states have already done, besides the 

 work which is now being done by the geological and natural history 

 survey of the State, which is distinct. 



Entomology has b^en slow to develop, but at last it has come to the 

 front and stands before us to-day as a science that stands back of 

 none of its associates in extent, in completeness, in beauty, in im- 

 portance, and in the benefits that are to be derived from its study by 

 man in almost every department of life. 



Mr. Harris, from the Committee on Entomology, presented the fol- 

 lowing: 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON ENTOMOLOGY. 



Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Minnesota State Horticultural 



Society : 



You cannot reasonably expect a very elaborate report from me, be- 

 cause I am not a scientist or even greatly learned in the science of en- 

 tomology. But like yourselves I have been frequently victimized by 



