trust on those unwilling or too careless to feed her children "how" and "why." Yet they are beginning to rally. You need but enter the horticultural department of our agricultural college next winter to see scores of eager faces applying themselves to their work with an interest never to be forgotten, while in many parts of the state, in the papers, at agricultural gatherings, are seen those who have already received the benefits of the union of theory and practice, and who are ready to tell how much they have been helped and to urge others to drink of the same fountain.

Geo. J. Kellogg introduced the following resolution: Resolved, That the secretary of this Society be authorized to visit new fruits from time to time and report to the Society at an expense not to exceed fifty dollars per year.

Secretary-I think we ought to launch out and do missionary work of this kind. We do certainly need to take some steps to work up an interest in our state. Minnesota has been wide awake and has increased her membership largely; the society pays Mr. Dartt for conducting a tree station 800 dollars, its secretary 600 dollars, and furnishes him with all the help he needs.

Resolution adopted without discussion.

B. F. Adams was called for and said: "I am not prepared to make any extended remarks to you this afternoon, but I think I can say to you that we have made some progress in the last fifty years. Forty-eight years ago I came into the state; there are some of our members who preceded me. Of the disappointments and the success you all know. We have demonstrated that we can raise small fruit successfully and abundantly. We can also raise that king of fruits, the apple, and we have men who have put out apple trees for a commercial purpose who are making money, while on the other hand there has been, I should say, about $50,000 worth of trees put out in this county that will never amount to anything. The time will come when we shall have apples abundantly."

A. L. Hatch-Mr. Adams, what, in your opinion from your long years of experience, are the apples that would be profitable in Dane county for commercial purposes?

B. F. Adams-I would say the Fameuse. The Tallman Sweet is still being fruited in this county; it does not bear every year. I have never noticed much blight among our apples in this county. The McMahon is promising, as is also the Wealthy and the Northwestern Greening. I have never turned my attention to orcharding. I have raised small fruits. Quite a variety of grapes are grown with protectionWorden, Concord, Moore's Early, Moore's Diamond and Delaware. The low price is a drawback to grape growing. When dealers ship in grapes by the carload and sell them for four and five cents per pound, it discourages people from planting very largely. If we would progress as a Society we must endeavor to find out those varieties of raspberries and blackberries that can be successfully grown without protection. I think I have found it in the raspberry, the Marlborough. I have never found a blackberry except one of the wild variety; I think Mr. Hatch sent it to me. I have three rows of it; it is perfectly hardy and the only one that will stand for a period of ten years or more. It is small and that might hurt it for a market berry. I call it the Hatch berry.

Geo. J. Kellogg Mr. President, I call for the report of the action taken by the committee, on trial stations, that held a special meeting at the beginning of this session.

The following report was read and adopted:

MEETING OF COMMITTEE ON TRIAL STATIONS.

Prof. E. S. Goff-I have been convinced, for more than a year, that we ought to do more work on trial stations, or less. We are not doing what we ought to do. A proposition has been made for a new station and that is one of the questions for us to decide.

A. D. Barnes-I believe we need more stations. There is a portion of the state, in the northern part, that needs a sta

tion or stations. I have had correspondence with people liv ing in Lincoln, Marathon and some of the northern counties, and I think a station up there would do considerable good. I believe we might discontinue one of our stations and establish one there that would be of benefit to the whole state.

Geo. J. Kellogg I believe we have individuals that are pushing the work in different portions of the state that will do more for us than a station can. I believe some of these men are far ahead of our stations now, and I believe we do not want that experimental station in the northern part of the state.

A. D. Barnes--I believe Mr. Kellogg's points are well taken, but I believe there are men who need the help the station would give them; they need encouragement; they need some lessons, something to go by.

The question is, Do we
Unless we can manage

B. S. Hoxie-I believe there is a mistaken notion among the people with regard to these stations. I think most of the people, or some of them, at least, think our stations are experiment stations while they are only trial stations. We call the one at Madison an experimental station; the others are merely for trial. Now, what have we published as the result of our stations that are of benefit to the farmers or to any one who wishes to grow berries? want more, or less, trial stations? to get reports of these trial stations before the people so they will be benefited by them, it is of no use to have more than one station. I am glad these questions have come up in full committee. If it is found that a certain variety is worthless in some localities, pull it up and try another. Let us keep on trying until we do find a worthy variety and not continue trying those varieties that do not succeed.

A. D. Barnes-I have been benefited by trial stations, by the report from Mr. Hatch.

B. S. Hoxie-Those reports you speak of were from Mr. Hatch's own farm and were carried on for the benefit of the department at Washington.

Prof. E. S. Goff-So far as the large fruits are concerned we have not had time to test them and to learn about them,

and so far as the small fruits are concerned I am less and less in favor of trial stations for small fruits. There is a man living near this city, Mr. Post, who is growing the Jessie strawberry; he is successful with that variety. On the university farm the Jessie is a failure, in one mile from here it is a sucWe fertilize highly; he none, or scarcely none, at all.

cess.

R. J. Coe-My impression is, it would be a good thing to drop the work in trial stations on small fruits, but I am in favor of continuing the work so far as a trial of trees is concerned.

A. D. Barnes-I move that we discontinue the experiments with small fruits at our trial stations but continue the work with relation to trees.

Geo. J. Kellogg I had hoped and believed that the best work could be done in the stations with small fruits and that it would be a work that would be of great advantage to the state. I do not believe any good can be done with experiments on trees at the station at Sparta, and I would move as a substitute to Mr. Barnes' motion, that we discontinue our trial stations.

A. L. Hatch-With regard to the work done at the station on my place it could not be done under my personal supervision but must be delegated to others. I could not describe to you the forty kinds of strawberries growing there. I believe the people will look to such men as Mr. Coe and will rely on what they tell them, instead of us at the trial stations, but we can save the trees and can show the results. With the berries it is only a matter of soil and location and "get there if you can." For my part, I would be glad to have all of the small fruits swept off. I do not really believe I would want it so sweeping either as to say "al small fruits," because there is the gooseberry that is showing us there is some legitimate work for us to do; the English say, "Shade is beneficial to the successful growing of the gooseberry." Spraying is proving some things to us, therefore I think we ought to retain some of the small fruits. We have, in Wisconsin, a variety of climates; we must consider climatic conditions. While we had apples here an inch in diameter, they were only in

blossom at Sturgeon Bay, and that shows us that we ought not to try to raise winter apples in Richland county. We raise nice early apples there. It is possible that some of the old varieties have been neglected. We might, profitably, perhaps, take some of the old varieties and experiment with them. One thing we must remember, we must study and understand our climate better.

R. J. Coe-There is a work in the gooseberry line that the general grower will not take up. We have been experimenting with some gooseberries that are wonderful. I think we,

as horticulturists, have something to do along that line.

A. D. Barnes—I think gooseberries and currants can be experimented with profitably to the state, and I think we need more stations.

Motion to discontinue the trial of strawberries, raspberries and blackberries was carried. Prof. Goff read a resolution, that was pending from the annual meeting, on forming a new trial station. Geo. J. Kellogg moved its adoptión; amended by B. S. Hoxie that it shall be under the entire control of the State Society as are the other stations. Carried as amended.

B. S. Hoxie moved the expense of the station be left for the committee on trial stations to determine. Carried. Prof. E. S. Goff-Trial station No.

has not followed the contract made with our trial stations in one respect. The contract specifies that no manager of a station shall use any of the plants for himself, and I am informed that this has been done and the contract been violated. What shall be the penalty for such violation?

A. D. Barnes-I move that on account of a violation of the contract station No. be discontinued.

B. S. Hoxie-It would be a very rash proceeding on our part to discontinue this station which is for the benefit of the state and not for individual benefit. I am not in favor of such action.

Geo. J. Kellogg—I am in favor of discontinuing that station. The small fruits are the varieties that have been disseminated. We have voted to discontinue small fruits and