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general, with the same amount of care and kind of cultivation, I 

 think the apple can be raised on most any place. I am satisfied 

 this is so from my experience. 



Mr. Pearce. I see that a number of those papers have alluded 

 to hogs in orchards. I made up my mind a number of years ago 

 that the hog was a scavenger and not fit to eat, but I have noticed 

 that wherever an orchard had a fence around it, and a lot of hogs 

 were in there, I always found good trees. When I was at Pleasant 

 Grove, which is settled by people who keep hogs, I noticed a hog 

 pen and in that hog pen was an apple tree, and I must say I never 

 found finer apples or a more thrifty tree, and it converted me so I 

 now believe hogs are essential to an orchard. 



Mr. Dartt. It is the manure. 



Mr. Pearce. No, it is not that exactly; I have made up my 

 mind to that fact. I have said nothing about it; but I have set 

 out an orchard of trees and have it so arranged that I can keep 

 hogs there during the summer season. 



Mr. Dartt. If you can't cultivate, turn in hogs. 



The following paper was then read by Mr. Harris: 



A DESCRIPTION OF AND BRIEF NOTES UPON SOME 

 OF THE VARIETIES OF APPLES THAT ARE OR HAVE 

 BEEN GROWN IN MINNESOTA. 



By J. S. Harris, La Crescent. 



Mr. President, members and friends of the Minnesota State Hor- 

 ticultural Society: A history of the Horticulture of Minne- 

 sota, the labors, trials and untiring perseverence under the great- 

 est difficulties that have impeded the progress of the art in any 

 country in the known world, would portray many deeds of heroism 

 and self sacrifice that would endear the memories of the old pio- 

 neer horticulturists of other states to future generations and make 

 a precious volume to bequeath to our decendants. But the task of 

 collecting the material and compiling such a work is too great to 

 be undertaken by a man of my age and financial and literary 

 ability. It is to be hoped that it will be undertaken before the 

 last of the actors in the drama have passed in their checks and 

 gone over to the other shore. This state has always been noted for 

 the energy and liberality of its people and has from the first been 

 a favorite field of operation-; for nurserymen, agents and the ped- 

 lers, and hundreds of thous vids of dollars have been drawn from 

 it for untried and worthless varieties of trees, and at one time it 



