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we are going to grow small fruits all over Minnesota. It is that 

 kind of information that we want to get at a glance. There are a 

 great many people in this "state who, if you send them a report, will 

 put it away on a shelf, but if there is a map in it they will begin to 

 inquire in regard to it, and so they get it as a sort of object lesson. 

 They get to thinking about it, and in that way we are going to get 

 them interested in our work, and that is the only way I can see 

 that we are going to attract the attention of the masses. I am 

 heartily in favor of the map, even if I did originate the scheme 

 and I hope I shall have backing enough to carry it out. 



Mr. Pearce. Mr. President, one word. Now, while Mr. Elliot 

 is rather down on experiment stations we have a great many of 

 them all over the state; we have ten times as many as you have 

 any idea of. I believe I have got every valuable Russian there is, 

 I have every new variety and I have seedlings that you never 

 heard of. I heave sent out all over Dakota and Minnesota those 

 varieties and am getting reports from them every year; I have 

 them up in Manitoba. There is an experiment station there. If 

 we had thirty-five or forty of those stations over the state they 

 would do more good than any map you can print. 



Mr. Harris. What good does what you know do the general pub- 

 lic unless you make it known to them. 



President Elliot. We don't get any information from what you 

 know and you are just in the same position as the man that put his 

 candle under a bushel. Now what we want is information and 

 that is why we are pitching this at you and everybody else that 

 doesn't give us a report. 



Mr. Pearce. I made a full report last year but it was accident- 

 ally lost. 



Mr. Harris offered the following resolution, which was adopted: 



Resolved, That this society approve of the suggestion of President Elliot to 

 publish in our transactions a map of Minnesota showing in colors the original 

 forest and prairie, the highest and lowest altitude, geological formation etc, 

 and also the districts or most northern limits where the Duchess apple has 

 been successfully fruited, also the Transcendant crab, the grape districts and 

 small fruits, and that the President and Prof. Green are delegated to prose- 

 cute the work, subject to the approval of the executive committee. 



The meeting adjourned until two o'clock p. m. 



WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON SESSION. 



The meeting was called to order at 2 o'clock by President Elliott. 

 The Secretary read a paper from Mr. Duffus, descriptive of his or- 

 chard, as follows: 



