72 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
the story. (See proceedings of the 16th annual meeting of the American 
Association of Nurserymen, held at Minneapolis, June 3, 1891. Page 118, 
Report of Committee upon Final Resolutions.) You ought to have suffi- 
cient copies to deliver to ali the people especially interested. Thanking 
you for all done, I am, Yours truly, 
S. M. Emery. 
ORGANIZATION OF CLUBS, ETC. 
Organization of horticultural and kindred societies, for the dissemina- 
tion of improved methods and information that will be beneficial to every 
tiller of the soil, is what should be considered of the utmost importance 
to the members of our society. It would be the means of giving us an 1n- 
crease in membership and influence, such as no other method would. 
Every school district throughout the length and breadth of our state 
should have its farmer’s and gardener’s club, where the farmers and their 
wives and boys and girls could come together every week or 
month, and interchange ideas and methods for more economical manage- 
ment of all the various industries in which they are interested. Papers 
could be prepared, read and discussed as to the most important means of 
securing a condition of improvement upon the farm, garden, and in the 
household; and once in three or six months, or oftener, if they choose, 
some talented person, specially skilled in some industry, could be pro- 
cured from abroad, to enlighten with practical wisdom the home talent, 
thus increasing the knowledge which everyone in this day and age so 
much needs, to keep step with the rapid progress and development of eco- ' 
nomical living. This class of education will help round out and bring 
into action the special endowments of each individual that takes part in 
these short debates upon familiar home topics. Every school district 
possesses talent and intelligence enough among its population to furnish: 
a first-class entertainment semi-occasionally, if they will only get to- 
gether in a business-like manner and do a little systematic planning. It 
simply requires one or two energetic, enterprising people to lead off by 
taking immediate action in forming a club, and the rest will follow, as. 
one sheep follows another over the stone wall. 
Hereafter. in holding our summer meetings, let it be one of the condi- 
tions that the people desiring us to come to their place of residence for 
this purpose, shall organize a horticultural society in their town, to be 
auxiliary to and co-operate with the State Horticultural Society; the 
sume conditions to hold good with reference to our winter meetings, ex- 
cept the years when the legislature is in session. 
A meeting in joint session, of the presidents, secretaries and executive 
committees of the State Horticultural Societies of the several adjoining 
states, the Dakotas, lowa, Wisconsin, Manitoba, should be advocated, the: 
time to be arranged by the secretaries. This, in connection with the cir- 
f 
cular letter received from T. T. Lyon, should be acted upon by our 
society. 
FORESTRY. 
Col. Thomas W. Knox says, ‘‘Let every boy bear in mind that the 
forests are our best friends; that they prevent drouths, or greatly miti- 
gate them, and have the same influence upon floods.’’ Also see ‘‘Forest 
and Garden,” Vol. 4, page 574. 
‘The forest crop is the great agricultural crop of the country, most im- 
portant in itself, as also in its relation to other crops. The problem is 
