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his varieties, because if he does not get the first premium he 

 cannot be at the expense of getting up an exhibit. You offer, 

 for instance, ten dollars for the best collection of varieties on ex- 

 hibition, but the ten dollars will not pay for the expense. The 

 apples are all right, but they are of no value after they have 

 been exhibited. Perhaps you may have put up forty varieties. 

 If you increase the premium for a general collection, or offer a 

 premium that will cover the largest exhibit, and make four or 

 five that are all respectable, those collections, every one of those, 

 will show you thirty or forty plates. They should not be counted 

 unless they are creditable exhibits. This exhibit here of grapes, 

 of course, has been kept with a great deal of difficulty. Fifty 

 dollars in premiums, for a general collection, will draw out ten 

 times as many plates as the same amount of money offered in 

 premiums for single specimens. 



The resolution of Mr. Dartt was then adopted. 



Capt. Blakeley. Mr. President, your committee have visited 

 the honorable Senate and House of Eepresentatives; the Senate 

 accepted the invitation of the association; the House was engaged 

 in important discussion at the time, and the speaker informed 

 me that he would announce the invitation, and no doubt it will 

 be accepted and they will visit us. 



Mr. Harris moved that the society request the State Agricul- 

 tural Society, in making up their premium list, to give a separate 

 class exclusively for the new Eussian varieties, offering pre- 

 miums for collections and for different varieties that are known 

 to be cultivated in the State. 



Mr. Dartt. The resolution that has been passed already 

 covers that ground. All new varieties, it don't say seedlings; 

 it was intended for new varieties, Eussians and seedlings. 



Mr. Harris. I am in favor of having the Eussians shown in a 

 class by themselves, and to have the seedlings in a class by them- 

 selves, and to have liberal premiums given on each. You will 

 accomplish far more good in that way, and that is the reason I 

 make this motion. While classed in that way, in the sweep- 

 stakes in their class they would not be permitted to come in. 



The motion was adopted. 



Mr. Whipple. I would like to say one word about striking 

 out all of the crab class. !N"ow, we have had a decision in our 

 courts within two days that I believe will make us trouble. You 

 all recollect the case where a pair of mules were stolen in Henne- 

 pin County within the last year. On our statute books we have 

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