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I thought Fuller knew everything in those days and I didn't; I waited 

 before pruning till the berry was the size of a currant; I was anxious 

 to get the best results. I took off half the foliage; it made the vines 

 look sick, some of them, and made me sick. I then began pinching, 

 and discovered that I raised some pretty good fruit. 



Mr. Underwood. Just a word in explanation of Mr. Doughty's 

 plan of grape culture. He does not recommend anything; he simply 

 tells what he has, arid what he is working with; and he doesn't offer 

 it as a professional plan for raising grapes or anything of the kind. 

 He has simply told how he raises his grapes, at the solicitation of the 

 Secretary of this association and myself. I know Mr. Doughty very 

 well, and I know he will get more vines and more grapes from about 

 forty vines than anybody else gets from — I was going to say a hundred 

 vines. I know a man on the next block that makes grape growing a 

 speciality, and I think Mr. Doughty had more grapes from a single 

 vine than he had on his whole lot. I think a plan that brings forth 

 such excellent results, whether it is a professional's plan or an 

 amateur's, or whatever it is, ought to be known and brought out. I 

 would like to see Mr. Doughty's plan illustrated with cuts. I have set 

 out some vines and I am going to try it on his plan. He has mainly, 

 as you see, the Concord variety. 



Mr. Harris, on behalf of the committee on grapes, then read the 

 report of the committee : 



GRAPES RECOMMENDED. 



Your committee appointed to present a list of grapes for general 

 cultivation in Minnesota to be adopted by this Society do respectfully 

 submit the following : 



1st, Concord; 2nd, Worden; 3d, Moore's Early; 4th, Delaware; 5th, 

 Lady; and for general trial Early Victor, Brighton, Oporto. 



J. S. Harris, 

 W. E. Brimhall, 

 J. T. Grimes, 

 Truman M. Smith, 

 0. E. Saunders. 



On motion of Mr. Pearce, the list as presented was adopted by a 

 vote of thirty in favor, and none against. 



