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those you know of. If you will do that, and forward such infor- 

 mation to Prof. Green, why next year I am in hopes we shall show 

 you something of progress. 



Mr. Dartt, Mr. President, I suppose that this would be some- 

 thing like a merchant in trade taking an account of stock. We 

 want to find out just where they all grow. Well now, the reports 

 that you get will depend some thing upon the feeling of the re- 

 porter. For instance one man is very sanguine that apples can be 

 successfully grown, he believes they are successfully grown and 

 will report success; but when you get another man who thinks 

 you can't grow apples in Minnesota, and who thinks you can't 

 grow any kind of fruit, his report will lean the other way, wont 

 it? When you get them all in, there will be some localities that 

 will be overestimated and there will be others that you will get 

 poorer reports from (han you are entitled to. So it seems to me 

 it would not be really reliable. And suppose you did know would 

 your chances be any better in the future? We are depending upon 

 new varieties. Wont we get our new varieties just as quickly if we 

 let bygones be bygones? Wont we progress just as rapidly and 

 more so than we will in any other way? Now, there is one question 

 that was raised last year. One member made the remark that he 

 thought there had been more apple trees planted in the last ten 

 years than ever before that. Now the question will probably be 

 settled by the next census and they will report the number of apple 

 trees planted and the extent of the apple crop. What data we 

 get there will be reliable. 



President Elliot. We thought by getting the good reports and 

 the bad reports together we could sift them out and come to some 

 conclusion as to what was feasible in some localities. Now we 

 have a fruit list committee that is at work getting up a fruit list for 

 this State. We have a State here of pretty broad dimensions and 

 we must institute some mathod so that we can shut out the selling 

 in certain localities of stock that is worthless and not reliable 

 while the same stock in another part of the State, say in the south- 

 ern tier of counties would be all right experimentally; but when 

 you take it up in the northern part it is of no avail and it is for 

 this purpose we want to get this information and we want to pick 

 this thing to pieces. If it is not going to be of any value we want 

 to know it and that is why the subject is brought up. 



Mr. Harris. Mr. President, I think this is a move in the right 

 direction; we have committees appointed but they have no map of 

 the state before them and have no data to go by to show in what 

 parts of the state any one variety of fruit could be produced. 



