ANNUAL WINTER MEETING. 
SECOND DAY. 
MORNING SESSION, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20. 
The meeting was called to order at 9 o’clock by Vice-Presi - 
dent Wedge. 
Vice-President Wedge: We will commence the session with 
' prayer by the Rev. R. N. Avison, Owatonna. 
Rev. R. N. Avison then offered prayer. 
Vice-President Wedge: The first thing on the program this 
morning is the question box. (These will be found under their 
appropriate heads.) 
Vice-President Wedge: The next thing on the program is 
the report of the committee on small fruits. 
The society then listened to Mr. M. Cutler, who read a re- 
port on grapes by E. Crandall, Sumter. (See index.) A dis- 
cussion followed. He also read a report on small fruits, by 
M. Cutler, Sumter. Minn. (See index.) 
* Vice-President Wedge: If there is no further discussion on 
this subject of the bees puncturing the grapes, we will go on 
with the reports of the committee on small fruits. 
The society then listened to the reading of the ‘* Report of 
~ Committee on Small Fruits,” by Dewain Cook, Windom, Minn. 
(See index.) Some discussion ensued. 
The society then listened to the reading of the following 
paper: ‘Small Fruits in Southwestern Minnesota,” by Dewain 
Cook, Windom, Minn. (See index.) A discussion on grapes 
followed. (See index. ) 
Vice-President Wedge: We will now listen to the reading of 
a paper by Mr. Cutler, of Excelsior. 
The following paper was then read by thesecretary: ‘‘Black- 
berries in the Big Woods,” by S. Cutler, Excelsior, Minn. 
(See index.) An interesting discussion followed. 
Vice-President Wedge: We have present with us to-day, as 
an accredited delegate and representative from the Northern 
Iowa Horticultural Society, Mr. J. B. Mitchell, of Cresco, Iowa. 
He is a nurseryman, and a Russian apple man, and if any of 
- you want to be informed on any of these points you will 
have achance to hear from him soon. 
The next thing on the program is a paper by Mrs. Anna B. 
Underwood. 
Mr. Underwood : On account of the unavoidable absence of 
my wife, occasioned by her illness, I will read the paper which 
she was to read. 
