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fectly adapted to planting evetywhere. A tree that might do 

 well in a narrow valley might do nothing on the prairie. An- 

 other variety that in one locality might produce fine fruit might 

 on the prairie be worthless. "We must not jump at conclusions 

 in this thing and we should not urge every farmer to go and 

 purchase all those varieties, but we must experiment and we 

 should give information as soon as we get it. They can help us 

 in solving the question and help us to find something that will 

 be of value to all our people. Perhaps we cannot find enough 

 of them. The Duchess has stood by us. If we cannot do this 

 we want to do another thing which is the planting of seed. I 

 have had occasion to notice this of late : Many people come to 

 my place and I frequently give away nice looking apples; I find 

 people will eat a good apple, save the seed, carry them home and 

 I suppose they plant them. Now, if every man who eats a Min- 

 nesota apple which is comparatively hardy, will take care of the 

 seed and plant them, the time is not very far away when some 

 one will hit upon something which may perhaps be better than 

 the Wealthy. If not he will hit upon something of value. There 

 are places where the Wealthy blights and the time is not far off 

 when we shall get much good from the planting of seed and rais- 

 . ing trees from them. 



Mr. Smith. Mr. President, in relation to those seedlings men- 

 tioned here, I have a suggestion to make. I don't know that it is 

 practical, but I think we ought to make some arrangement by 

 which we could bring this matter more directly before the peo- 

 ple of this State; so I put this out in this way, and it can be mod- 

 ified, changed or rejected. I move the appointment of a com- 

 mittee of three to collect all the information possible in regard 

 to the best Minnesota seedlings, with a statement of where the 

 varieties are lor sale and at what price; that 10,000 copies of a 

 circular containing this information be printed and scattered 

 throughout the State, wherever it is thought they will do the 

 most good; that the press of the Northwest be requested to give 

 this as wide a circulation as possible, and that the expense to the 

 society shall not exceed $50. My reasons for this are, first, that 

 the Eollins Pippin has been before the people of Minnesota for 

 a good many years, and very few people are planting it, and yet 

 I believe it to be worthy of cultivation anywhere in Minnesota; 

 the same may be said in regard to many Minnesota seedings of 

 merit. They have not been brought before the people. Now, 

 the nurserymen are, perhaps, propagating them on a small scale, 



