STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 71 



REPORT OF AUDITING COMMITTEE. 



Mr. President: 



The Committee who were appointed to settle with the Treasurer 

 of this Society, beg leave to make the following,' rejjort, viz: Have 

 examined the hooks and vouchers and find them correct, also find a 

 balance in Treasurer's hands of SN^O.IV*. We also recommend that 

 there be an order drawn in favor of the Treasurer for ^38.5(j for his 

 commission on §1.849.7(3, and $1.80 ])aid for postage on drafts. 

 All of wliich is respectfully submitted. 



W. T. Nelson, 

 S. M. Slade, 



H. K. ViCKROY, 



Co)ni)iittre. 

 On motion the report was accepted and approved. 



Milo Barnard — Mr. Bryant is now present and T suggest that 

 we have his Ad-Interim report. 



Mr. A. Bryant, Jr., of Princeton, then proceeded to read his 

 report as follows: 



REPORT OF AD-INTERIM COMMITTEE FOR NORTHERN 



ILLINOIS. 



On account of the unfavorable seasons for the past two years, 

 and the serious damage from the last winter that the orchards and 

 most of the small fruits received in this district, and also through 

 the whole northwest, your committee were for sometime undecided 

 what to do in regard to nuiking a report. We finally concluded that 

 we would spend a little time in the examination of orchards in 

 different localities, and see if any facts could be gathered. 



Early in Sejjtember your committee visited several places in 

 Bureau and Henry Counties, and at other times were in Kankakee 

 and LaSalle. Mr. 0. W. Barnard will report in detail on the several 

 ])oints that we visited together. What little I have to say in this 

 rejtort will be of a general character, only remarking that my time 

 has been so fully occupied with other matters that I have not given 

 it the attention that its merits required. 



As is well known, nearly all of the orchards through the north- 

 west are in a serious decline. In some places the trees are nearly all 

 gone, and in others some vai'ieties seem quite healthy, and other trees 

 partially or Avholly dead. In our visits, the orchards that we found 

 located on high dry land, somewhat sheltered, and well drained 

 naturally, were lo(d<ing much the best. The trees generally looked 

 more vigorous, had more fruit (ni them tlian those on rich level 

 prairie land. From this we concluded that the cold an<l wet affected 



