Discussion. 215 



1887. 



Jan. 11. To Toucher No. 114 $2170 



Feb. 4. To voucher No. 115 50 00 



Feb. 4 To voucher No. 116 1139 



Feb. 9. To voucher No. 117 25 71 



$795 91 



Feb. 10. Balance in Treasury 558 20 



$1,354 11 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



M. ANDERSON, 

 Treasurer. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Stickney — The thought occurs to me that as we have 

 some funds on hand that we are not obliged to use just 

 now, that we make some slight change in the salary of our 

 secretary. We all know the work that has been done and 

 will need to be done in that position, and that it has been 

 paid for according to our means. Now that we have the 

 ability to do a little better, I would move you that we in- 

 crease our secretary's salary from $200 to $300 as a simple 

 act of justice and appreciation of the work done in that 

 position and that will need to be done. 



A. L. Hatch — I would like to second that motion, and I 

 was in hopes he would make it S400. I think we have a man 

 so valuable that we can afford to pay him. I wish he would 

 go out as a missionary. 



Motion carried. 



Mr. Stickney — Many of us know the sort of timber our 

 secretary is made of, and while he is doing our work so 

 well the farmers should have our man too. It is hard to 

 say how much we can accomplish in that way. It seems to 

 me we may best leave that with our executive board to 

 decide, what to do and when to do it. I move that our execu- 

 tiye board be instructed, so far as our secretary can, and so far 

 as our means will allow and attending circum 5tances war- 

 rant, that they be authorized to provide for and direct such 

 work to be done by our secretary as he is able to do among 

 the local societies of horticultnre in this state. 



