STATE HORTIULTURAL SOCIETY. 39 



Secretary. — In answer to letters of inquiry for copies of our Trans- 

 actions, I have replied ,that paper-covered ones could be procured at one 

 dollar each, and I have accordingly sold a few in this way. I think this 

 was die practice of the former Secretary. 



M. L. Duxi.AP said that his object was to place these Transactions in 

 the hands of the people, and if they can be obtained at one dollar, this 

 fact would modify his opposition to the present rate. Yet he thought it 

 not equal that members should pay two dollars, when others could pro- 

 cure the books at one dollar each. 



Tlie Secretary explained that the members had bound copies sent 

 them, while those sold at one dollar were in paper covers. Pending the 

 vote, Mr. Earle moved that, as the hour of adjournment had arrived, the 

 Society do now adjourn. This motion prevailed and the President an- 

 nounced an adjournment until two o'clock. 



TUESDAY AFTERNOON. 



Society met pursuant to adjournment. 



The report of the State Horticulturist being in order, the Secretary 

 read a telegram which he had just received from Messrs. Riley, Tice, and 

 Spalding, dated at Peoria, asking that Dr. Hull's report be postponed, as 

 tliey were detained on account of failure to make connections with the 

 train to Galesburg. 



Their request was granted, on motion of Mr. Murtfeldt. 



Owing to the absence of Mr. Wier, the report of Committee ad- 

 interim on Grapes was also postponed. 



Mr. Douglass' paper upon Evergreens came next in order, but he was, 

 at his request, allowed further time to complete it. 



The motion of Mr. Dunlap, which was pending when the adjourn- 

 ment at noon took place, was called up. 



Mr. Earle favored the motion, saying that he had been informed 

 that we had a large number of copies of our Transactions of previous 

 years, on hand. Our books are intended for circulation, and we should 

 use all projier means to secure their just distribution among those who 

 desire them, and will be benetited by them. He thought the reduction 

 of price of membership to one dollar would result in calling in a large 

 membership, especially if the fact could be made public tlirough the 

 agricultural press. 



The President stated that the demands against the Society will 

 nearly exhaust its funds ; and that of the one thousand copies of Transac- 

 tions of 1867 but few were remaining. Being asked to whom the seven 

 hundred paper-covered copies were given or sold, he replied that one 

 hundred to one hundred and fifty were taken by members; about two 

 hundred went to committees, and persons furnishing contributions to the 

 volume; to the State Agricultural Society about fifty copies; the remain- 

 der to local societies, kindred societies, and members of the press. Of 

 the volume of 1868 he said there were about two hundred copies on hand. 



