The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-03

Gathering, Storing and Marketing the
/ Apple Crop E. H. Dart, Owatonna:
| uses OF Apples in the Home Mrs. c.
! Wedge, Albert Lea; THE Present
Status of the Harder Russians" Prof
]. T.. Budd, Ames, la.
The question of pruning was dis
! cussed at considerable length. various
| suggestions asgto time and manner be,
| ing given. 1t seems to be the general
opinion that the best time is between
! June Is and July 15, at a time when
| the sap has stpppsd running. and the
| tree is in a condition to grow over the
| wound made by the knife.
M. Pearce, Of Chowen, gave a practi-
| cal demonstration ,of the natural laws
of growth, with reference to the roots.
| He had small tree which he ex-
| hibited to carry out his theory. He
claimed that there were three kinds OF
| roots, those near the top Of the ground
| which supplied the tree with food.
those at the bottom which are to sup
| ply moisture, and the fruiting roots
or those which gather the life and es-
sentials for the production of the fruit
on the tree. These are between the
| first two.
The next matter taken I'D was
Blight Mr.. Rartt, of Owatonna, quite
generally expressed the situation when
the doctors disagree Thus 1t was.
There were hardly two opinions which
were the same on the matter.
A. s. Swanson, florist from ST.
Paul, was present with resolution
which he asked to have adopted, re-
guessing the board Of managers Of the
/ Red Wing Reform school to stop SELL
ing green house plants to department
stores. This matter was referred 10
the executive committee, with power
to act.
A letter from Col J. H. Stevens was
read regretting his inability to be pres
! ent, but stating that he was with the
society heart and soul Prof. Green
stated that while he had been con-
nected with the society nine years. this
was the first meeting of the society
which he had known Col Stevens to
miss. Accordingly he moved that a
! committee of three be appointed to
wait on the colonel at his home and
inform him how they regretted his ill
ness, and to extend to him the sympa-
thy of the society. This was carried,
and Prof. Green, G. Wedge and Wy
man Elliott were appointed for the
| duty.
| Prof. Green made a verbal report
of the experiments carried on at the
| central station at the university school.
| He spoke of the excellent reputation Of
the school, and stated that 1t was the
standard by which other schools in
| the United States were compared.
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pertinent stations, and several papers
were read on plants, grape and peach
| culture in the state
THE EVENING SESSION
| was devoted to the general topic Of
| flower and tree culture. The pro-
gramme Included a. number of valuable
and interesting; papers on these SUBJ
jects One of the best papers vet pre-
sented before the association, upon
subject which deserves careful atten-
| ton of every man who has the best in
terests of his state at heart, was that
on Forestry and the Water Problem"
by j. 0. Ferret, secretary Of the for
| estry association of the state. He
| showed that while the annual precipi-
tation for the stateshas not greatly les
| sened during a period of several years
back, the lakes are drying up and the
rivers are running low. The water
supply is being. threatened. His pro-
posed remedy is a systematic planting
of trees, to counterfeit the greater de-
mand for moisture which results from
the cultivation of the soil. AT least
one-third of the remaining natural
trees in the northern portion of the
state should be preserved, and for
every acre of new land broken, one
half an acre of trees should be set out.
A plan is being outlined by ]. M. Cross,
OF this city, to come before the state
legislature, WnlCn. snail provide lOT LHS
state buying the waste lands for pur-
poses of tree culture. The matter was
regarded as q most important one.
The paper entered into detail, showing
the cultivation Of trees tends to i'm.
crease the water supply. ri
Al paper on ''Deciduous Trees" by f.
H Nutting engineer of the park board,
Minneapolis, was another that received
general attention. The paper gave q
complete list of the deciduous trees
more adapted for. growing in a Mime
sofa climate.
practical Thoughts on Growing
Trees" by Wyman Elliott, Of this city,
advocated the use Of nursery grown
trees in preference to forest trees, even
though the forest tree might be as fine
and symmetrical In growing a shade
tree from the seed great care must be
taken from the start, the maxim being
true one, that as the twig is bent 50
the tree is inclined. -
Other papers were presented during
the evening as fo1lowes: House and
Greenhouse Plants Mrs. William
Lyons, Minneapolis: Hardy Peren-
malls" Mrs Anna P. Underwood, Lake
CITY: GLOVER. Culture Among the
children Mrs. Mildred M. Barnard
of the Minneapolis Improvement
league: Growth of @Evergreens, A. Il.
Bush. Dover; "A Woman in Case,
Mrs. A. A. KephedY, Hutchinson.
Today will be a, full day for the as
ISOLATION, with three sessions including
the election of officers at s o'clock The
morning session copvenes at O'Clock
and will be devoted to the general topic