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the Society, to be offered in premiums on fruit at that meeting. 

 The president was authorized to prepare the premium list, and 

 Mr. Plumb and the secretary were commissioned to make the 

 necessary preparation for the exhibition. 

 Society adjourned. 



TRANSACTIONS AT THE ANNUAL MEETING. 



Agricultural Rooms, 



January 31-February 4, 1880. 



The society convened in the Agricultural Rooms at 7 : 30 P. M., 

 President Smith in the chair. 



A motion made by Mr. Plumb that the president be authorized 

 to appoint the usual committees was carried, and in accordance 

 therewith the following appointments were made: 



Committee on Programme — A. G. Tuttle, A. J. Philips, D. T. Pilgrim. 

 Committee on Resolutions — J. C. Plumb, J. S. Stickney. 

 Committee on Finance — J. S. Stickney, J. W. Wood, A. A. Arnold. 

 Committee on Fruit on Exhibition — Geo. J. Kellogg, G. P. Peffer, B. B. 

 Olds. 



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Mr. Plumb moved that a committee of three be selected by 

 those having fruit on exhibition to award the premiums offered 

 by the society, which was carried. 



The secretary stated that the amount of fruit on exhibition 

 made it impossible to find the space needed for a proper display 

 in the room where the joint convention was to be held, as had 

 been intended, and if arranged there, it would have to be removed 

 before Wednesday morning. As this would not be agreeable, 

 either to the exhibitors or the public, other arrangements had to 

 be made. The Governor had given permission to place it on 

 tables in the hall, or to permit a room in the basement of the 

 oapitol to be used for this purpose. It was not a very satisfactory 

 arrangement to have the exhibition placed so much to one side 

 and so far from the place where the meeting was to be held, but 

 it seemed to be the best that could be done, and therefore, as the 

 exhibitors were anxious to get their fruit arranged, the secretary, 



