Mr. Andrews:  We need this provision so that Superintendent Haralson could visit those trees and see what they looked like.

Mr. Latham:  I move that this matter be referred to the executive board to develop a workable plan to secure the purposes which Mr. Andrews has in view.

The President:  Do you accept that as a substitute?

Mr. Andrews:  I would if it wasn’t for this one thing.  It was left that way a year or two ago, and it hasn’t amounted to a thing.  I do not care if it is left to the executive committee if Mr. Latham will vouch for its being put through.

Mr. Latham:  Don’t you remember as the result of that action we prepared forms to be used by those who examined the seedlings and decided what seedlings should be further tested and all that sort of thing.  We have those forms for use if the committee wants to use them.

Mr. Andrews:  Those ought to be so as to hold the premium money back until we get some material to test.

Mr. Latham:  I will say a few words.  It is not such a simple matter as it seems.  Here come perhaps fifty people who have grown seedlings.  We tell them we are very desirous that all the seedlings in the state that have promise of merit be shown.  In the division of the premium money they do not get more than four or five dollars apiece, the best of them do not get more than eight or ten dollars.  Then here comes a resolution which says, “Before you draw this money you have to furnish scions to the state fruit-breeding farm with the privilege of sending out to other stations in the state for testing.”  The average man who owns a seedling that is really a good thing begins to think about it, and we will not get what we want.  If a man has a seedling that is better than the Duchess and Wealthy and has hardiness as well there are lots of buyers around here that have their eyes open.  There has been a half a dozen I know of picked up in the last few years really first class, fine and hardy.  Those trees are being tested out.  It would be a splendid thing if we could get a really good seedling, as Mr. Andrews says, but a resolution of this kind will not result in doing what we want to do.

I would like to have it referred to the executive board so they can work out a practical plan.  Mr. Andrews is a member of the board.  I renew my motion.

Motion is seconded.

The President:  The original motion as given by Mr. Andrews is that those people offering seedlings for prizes, before they receive premiums—­

Mr. Andrews:  The first or second premiums, I said, because that would shut out all of the others.

The President:—­before receiving the first or second premiums, that they be required or that they will agree to furnish scions or buds for experimental purposes, these scions or buds to be sent to the central station to Mr. Haralson for the purpose of testing them out as to hardiness, under number.  Now, the amendment made by Mr. Latham is to the effect that this matter be referred to the executive committee.  We will first put the amendment that it be referred to the executive committee to work out a practical plan.