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creating was prolonged. In this way too, new fruits, tlowers and vegetables may 

 be added from time to time, each giving new pleasure and new beauty. The 

 farmer needs recreation, and where can he find it better than in his garden? Time 

 spent there will make him fonder of home and keep him from temptation, and as 

 the love of home increases, be will surrround it with associations of beauty, and 

 memories of joy and pleasure will go with his children wheree'r they roam. And 

 when his "last debt is paid," and his neighbors stand around his new made grave, 

 they can truly say: "His work is done; he did it well, and there is one little spot 

 of earth that is better for his having lived upon it." 



On motion the meeting then adjourned until Friday morning. 



MORNING SESSION. 



Fourth Day, Friday, January 22, 1886. 



The meeting was called to order at 9 o'clock, Friday morning, by 

 President Smith. 



REPORTS FROM EXPERIMENTAL STATIONS. 



It was announced that the first thing in order would be the reports 

 from Experimental Stations. 



The resolutions ofi'ered by Col. J. H. Stevens, on Wednesday, rela- 

 tive to a Committee on Seedlings, etc., were, on motion, unanimously 

 adopted. (See page 174.) 



Prof. E. D. Porter and P. M. Gideon not being present, M. Pearce, 

 of Minneapolis, was first called upon for a report. 



REPORT OF MR. PEARCE. 



Mr. Pearce. Mr. President, I was not aware that I was down for a 

 report, but I can report verbally as to what I am doing. A great many 

 cions have been sent to me and I have grafted them and given them a 

 trial. They were pretty much all root grafts, and came from difi"erent 

 places, some from New York state and some from other distant points. 

 Think there were fully fifty different varieties received, and all have 

 been put out, staked and properly marked. A great many of the grafts 

 came through last winter without any injury particularly, but some of 

 them will die. I think some of them will be valuable; especially one 

 or two kinds received from northern Nebraska. They don't appear to 

 be injured at all. 



