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meetings were held in different parts of the county on the premises 

 of the farmers who were willing to furnish out-door accommoda- 

 tions for a basket or pic-nic dinner. This was an interesting and 

 attractive feature, and it induced many farmers, accompanied by 

 their families, to attend and take part in the meetings, and the 

 regular business of the society was transacted, and its objects 

 carried on with greater zeal, energy and efficiency than ever before. 

 The officers elected for 1879 are: 

 President — J. M. Smith, Green Bay. 

 Secretary — Werden Reynolds, Green Bay. 



The regular monthly meeting of the society was held this day at 

 the residence of Vice President Wm. Rowbotham, in the town of 

 Preble. There were present about twenty-five members of the 

 society, most of them accompanied by their wives; also several 

 visitors, both ladies and gentlemen, numbering in all about sixty 

 persons. 



The meeting was called to order by the president, and the min- 

 utes of the preceding meeting read and approved. 



The president announced that he had written to the department 

 at Washington, for a few copies of the Report of the Commissioner 

 of Agriculture, for the year 1877, and hoped to succeed in obtain- 

 ing them. He also stated that he had made arrangements with Mr. 

 Hurlbut, by which the members of the society could obtain plaster 

 Paris at $1.10 per barrel, if a car-load was taken. 



He gave notice that the list of premiums adopted at the last 

 meeting for the session of the State Horticultural Societv, to be 

 held in this city in June next, had been printed, and copies were 

 in the hands of the secretary for distribution. He desired that the 

 members would give them general circulation in the county. 



The following resolution, submitted by Mr. Bennett, was con- 

 sidered and adopted, namely: 



JZesolved, That all persons not members of this or of any other 

 horticultural society in the state, who shall desire to compete for 

 premiums at the exhibition of fruits and flowers by the society, in 

 June next, shall be required to pay an entrance fee of fifty cents. 



Reception of new members being in order, Messrs. Alfred Thomas, 

 principal of the high school in Green Bay, John Hogan, farmer, of 

 the town of Preble, and John Campbell, farmer, of the town of 

 Scott, were duly proposed and admitted as active members; also 



