ANNUAL WINTER MEETING 109 



Franklin Benner: Ladies and Gentlemen: In order to give 

 you an opportunity to study the trees which produce this fruit 

 we propose to hold an exhibition at 128 Washington Avenue 

 North. Through the liberality of our business men here we 

 have the best premium list of any ever offered in the state. I 

 think it is ten years since we had an exhibition in Minneapolis. 

 I hope all of you that have poultry will bring it and show it, 

 and we will be very glad to give a premium to those who de- 

 serve one. If any of you have friends who are raising poultry 

 we would be very glad to give them our premium list. I will 

 leave sixty here, and if any of you wish any more I will gladly 

 furnish them. We have issued seventeen hundred copies and 

 wish them freely distributed. I give you all a cordial invita- 

 tion to attend. 



Prof. Green read the following report: "Report from 

 Central Experiment Station," by Prof. Samuel B. Green, St. 

 Anthony Park, Minn. (-See index.) 



President Elliot: If there is anything in either one of these 

 reports that needs discussion, I hope you will take it up. 



L. H. Wilcox: I am so happy to agree with my friend, Prof. 

 Green, for once, that I move they be referred to the executive 

 committee without recommendation. 



The reports were so referred. A short discussion then fol- 

 lowed, on the report of E. H. S. Dartt. 



The following reports were then read: "La Crescent 

 Experiment Station," by J. S. Harris, La Crescent. (See index.) 

 "New Ulm Experimental Station," by C. W. H. Heideman, 

 New Ulm. (See index.) 



J. S. Harris: It is proposed by this society to cut the exper- 

 imental stations down to seven, and I may not be among the 

 lucky or unlucky seven, but I shall continue the experiments, 

 just the same, as I am very deeply interested in getting together 

 all the native plums of the northwest, and I want to extend an 

 invitation to you, and that is, that every man who has a good 

 quality of native plums, or one that he esteems more than 

 another, would correspond with me, and if he can do so, send 

 me a root plant of the variety, and anything I see that is desira- 

 ble, I will respect the owner's rights. I do not want them for 

 sale, but am only interested in getting them together and hav- 

 ing them proved, so that out of the whole number we get a 

 profitable variety. Also in regard to seedling apples I would 

 make the same request. 



