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an experimental station, although he was appointed at our annual 

 meeting two years ago. 



President Smith. I remember that Mr. Lord was appointed at that 

 time but I see that his name does not appear in the list. 



Mr. Harris. It was an oversight that his name was not published, 

 and I move that his name be properly placed among the names of the 

 managers of Experimental Stations. 



The motion was adopted. 



Mr. Underwood being called upon for a report said : Mr. President 

 I am not prepared with a written report. If you would just duplicate 

 the very excellent report of Mr. Lord, which has just been read, in case 

 it were found necessary to do so to fill out our proceedings with some- 

 thing of the kind, I think it would very accurately express what I 

 would wish to say. It seems to fit our experience almost exactly. I 

 don't know, if I were to write out a report, that I could improve upon 

 what has been expressed in giving his experience. We have suffered 

 much from the severe winter and there was no way to avoid it, and 

 all we could do was to take it as it came. Even many of the shade 

 trees. Maples, Elms, etc., were more or less injured. The effects of 

 the winter have not in all instances been entirely disastrous, still, more 

 or less injury was done. 



Mr. L. E. Day, of Farmington, being called upon for a report, said: 

 Mr. President, I have very little to report. I have just commenced, 

 you know, in a small way, and as yet have only a few cions, bat the 

 most of those put in are doing nicely. I am succeeding well, so far 

 as I have gone. Have not done enough as yet to make a report upon, 

 but have done the best I could with what I have had. 



REPORT OF J. S. HARRIS. 



La Crescent, Jan. 1, 1886. 



Mr. President: — I have very little to report in addition to what was brought out 

 in the discussions at our last annual meeting. I have accepted the position of 

 manager of an Experimental Station in good faith, and shall prosecute the work as 

 extensively and rapidly as circumstances will permit. To start with I have but 

 little besides the ground on which to make a beginning. Some cions were fur- 

 nished me in the spring of 1884, by our former secretary, Mr. Qibbs, including two 

 varieties of apple, two of plums, and one of cherry. 1 did not succeed in making 

 any of the cherry cions grow. The apple cions lived and made a fair growth "^the 

 first year, but unfortunately they were worked upon tender stocks, and last winter 

 made a finish of them. Some of the plums are living, I procured and planted a 

 few Cuthbert raspberries and Ancient Briton blackberry plants, both of which are 



