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first introduced and asked to respond to the toast, ‘‘Our Hosts, 
the Professors at the Experiment Station,” he responded briefly 
somewhat as follows: 
Colonel Stevens: I don’t know what I can say on this beau- 
tiful June day where all about is so propitious, but I wish to 
bear willing testimony to those professors whose labors are 
fraught with so much that is beneficial to Minnesota. I never 
speak ill of a man if I can help it. I believe in the old adage, 
‘‘The laborer is worthy of his hire.”” And I am glad to say that 
this beautiful farm, started under the auspices of Professor 
Porter, whom we all revere and who has recently gone to his 
long home, has found in Professor Green a man worthy to fol- 
low in his footsteps. All the professors seem especially 
adapted to do the work before them. Everything speaks for 
itself,—the beautiful growing crops, garden, the trees, 
everything indicates that it is under the tutelage of men worthy 
of their hire. And to these men who have thus labored so 
effectually we offer our most sincere thanks. 
Under ‘‘Thoughts of the Hour” Prof.S. B. Green gave an in- 
teresting resume of the work and present condition of the farm 
school. Among other things, he said: ‘‘It affords me great 
pleasure to see you here today, and all my colleagues are in 
thorough sympathy with your aims. Every one wants to see 
this work brought to a successful issue in this state. So we 
are always glad to see you and will do what we can to entertain 
you when you see fit to visit us. I didn’t know what my subject 
was until I got up, but as ministers sometimes take a text and 
then talk about what they please, that is what I am going to 
do, and I shall talk about what we are doing at the farm. 
‘There has been a serious loss of trees that have stood the 
winters well heretofore, while cherries, apples and plums 
never came through the winter in better shape. Strawberries 
and raspberries are not doing well. They were somewhat in- 
jured during the winter and, also, by the drouth of last year, 
but were not affected by this season’s frost. Learning a lesson 
from last summer, we are paying more attention this year 
to vegetables, especially to potatoes and tomatoes. We are 
also paying a good deal of attention to garden machinery and 
garden tools. A great many letters come to us on garden sub- 
jects, five times as many as ever before. There are a great 
many letters about potatoes. The prospect is that potatoes 
will be down pretty low this fall. We are carrying on experi- 
ments not only in varieties, but in combating the rot and blight. 
