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and horse-radish should be set where they can remain for several 

 years and be well fed with manure. This does not give best results 

 but will answer for home use and save time at the busy time. 



We believe the above will furnish an ordinary family with 

 an abundance of healthy vegetables and fill a gap on the bill of fare 

 so frequent on the farmer's table. 



Varieties of these different things could be named, but it would 

 extend this report to, too great a length. Let each one talk with his 

 neighbors and swap items and seeds; but as a rule, good seeds can be 

 as well bought as saved. The cost is small and with us the results 

 are better. 



J]!^^o. M. Pearson, 

 H. L. DoAN, 

 G. W. McCleur, 



Committee. 



Mr. Hay — The success of gardening depends largely on manure. 

 A rich, well-cultivated soil will push vegetables forward rapidly, but 

 without manure it is useless to expect an early garden. 



WEDNESDAY EVENING. 

 The meeting was called to order at 7:30. The first paper for the 



evening was 



OUR LATE PRESIDENT. 

 BY HENRY MORTIMER, MANTENO. 



At the annual meeting of the Illinois State Horticultural 

 Society, held in Princeton last December, Milo Barnard was elected 

 president for the ensuing year. ■ That meeting was a very pleasant 

 and instructive one. The many able pa])ers read and the valuable 

 discussions following encouraged horticulturists, and many have 

 looked forward with interest to our present meeting for a con- 

 tinuance of the good work. There is, however, a feeling of sadness 

 when we realize that he whom we honored with the presidency of 

 this Society, only one year ago, has been called from the field of his 

 labors here to the Great Eternal beyond the "shores of time." 



Milo Barnard was born July 20th, 1831, in Economy, Wayne 

 county, Indiana. In 1835 his parents located in LaPorte county, 

 of the same State, where the subject of this sketch resided until 1857, 



