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134 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
AUXILIARY SOCIETIES. 
REPORT OF EAU CLAIRE, WIS. HORTICULTURAL ASSOCIATION 
To the Minnesota State Horticultural Society, January 1, 1892: 
OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION, 
President—Peter'S. Price, Eau Claire. 
Vice-President—W. K. Culbertson, Eau Claire. 
Secretary—R. Elwell, Eau Claire. . 
Treasurer—J. F. Case, Eau Claire. 
COMMITTEES. 
Finance—M. W. Wisner, Frank Keefe, Chas. E. Hazen. 
Fruits and Vegetables—J. F. Case, Alfred Soper, G. W. Lufkins. 
Observation—O. T. Remington, Jacob Garrett, Chas. EK. Burce. 
Floviculture—Mrs. W. Sherman, Mrs. Burroughs, Mrs. R. Elwell. 
Experiments—J. F. Case, Z. B. Stillwell, W. R. Culbertson. 
LIST OF MEMBERS. 
P. 8S. Price, Eau Claire; O. T. Remington, Amy, (Dunn county); W. R. 
Culbertson, Eau Claire; J. F. Case, L. G. Stone, Chas. E. Hazen, J. C. Bar- 
land, G. W. Lufkins, Alfred Soper, Mrs. W. R. Culbertson, Chas. E. Burce 
Mrs. Wesler Sherman, Mrs. Burroughs, Mrs. L. G. Stone, Mrs. R. Elwell, 
M. W. Wisner, R. Elwell, Jacob Garnett, F. E. Keefe, Andrew Mohult, Z. 
B. Stillwell, Mrs. Z. B. Stillwell, Eau Claire. 
This association was organized on March 14, 1891, and holds monthly 
meetings on the second Saturday of each month; its place of meeting is 
in the court house at Eau Claire. 
At the meetings of July, August and September, some fine exhibits of 
strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and gooseberries were made by 
Messrs. Price, Case, Culbertson, Stone and Stillwell. 
The crop of small fruits in this section the past season was good, al- 
though the dry, hot weather in August injured the blackberry crop to 
some extent. 
The varieties of fruit grown were, of strawberries, Sharpless, Crescent, 
Capt.Jack,Mammoth, Lida, Bubach No. 5, Eureka and Haverland; of rasp- 
berries, Turner, Cuthbert, Marlboro, Brandywine and Golden Queen; of 
blackberries, Ancient Briton, Snyder, Stones Hardy, Erie and Taylor’s 
Prolific. 
Of the larger fruits none are grown in this section except the Tran- 
scendent crab, and that is badly affected by the blight. 
The association has established an experimental station for testing 
the value of new small fruits for this part of the state. These experi- 
ments are under the control of a committee of three, holding one, two 
and three years, so only one new member can be on the committee at one 
time. 
The interest in the meetings of the association is increasing; the at- 
tendance is better, and the outlook is bright for the future prosperity of 
our association 
R. ELWELL, Secretary. 
