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Mr. Dartt: Is that list before us for discussion? 
Mr. Harris: Why, yes; I suppose you can discuss it if you 
want to. 
Mr. Dartt: I move the Wolf River be stricken off. 
Mr. Harris: I would not recommend that. This is only for 
discussion. 
Mr. Dartt: I made that motion hoping I would get a second. 
If I had made a speech, I might have interested somebody 
enough to second my motion. As I understand it, that is a 
Minnesota list. 
Mr. Harris: No, sir; it is not: 
Mr. Dartt: Well, if it is not a Minnesota list, I don’t know 
that I have anything to do with it. If itis a Minnesota list, I 
would not recommend anything that would not grow in Minne- 
sota. 
Mr. Harris: If he is going to restrict us to fruits that are 
successful in Minnesota only, what chance have we to find out 
what there is outside of the fence? 
Mr. Barrett: If I understood Bro. Dartt—he and I some- 
times cross each other—he seems to imply in his statement that 
the Wolf River is not to be recommended. If that is the posi- 
tion assumed in reference to that tree, I shall have to defend it. 
Pres. Underwood: This is merely a discussion; it does not 
carry with it any recommendation. 
Mr. Dartt: He said it was not good for anything, and I 
thought we should not have anything of that kind on the list. 
Myr. Richardson: In our section of the state there some men 
who are raising Wolf River and think they are way ahead of 
the Wealthy. If they cannot get them there, they send to Wis- 
consin for them. There are Wolf River trees just north in the 
county of Blue Earth, and they are as good as any I ever saw. 
Mr. Harris: I think we should spend some time, or rather 
have a committee at every meeting to spend some time to 
change the ratings, something on the plan of the American 
Pomological Society in their catalogue. The secretary there 
reads one item at a time, and any one is at liberty to recom- 
mend any change he sees fit to suggest. The catalogue makes 
a list of the varieties that are worthy of cultivation somewhere 
in the country; and I think it would pay us to reserve our cata- 
logue and publish it once in two or four years, and each time 
before we publish it make these ratings correct. One man can 
not make a rating that will suit everybody. In regard to the 
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