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TRANSACTIONS OF THE ILLINOIS 



a sufficient crop of potatoes to make it an object to the bugs to hunt for 

 them — iBarket glutted the year before. 



In conclusion, I would urge the planting of orchards, hedges, screens, 

 and timber belts, any and all kinds of trees on the prairies (except locust). 

 Close cultivation, clean corners; kill the noxious insects by fire, water, 

 wine (Schroeder's), or any other means. Be of good cheer. Eternal vigi- 

 lance is the price oi fruit, as well as " liberty." 



Yours, 



Tyra Montgomery, 



Vice-President ^th District. 



M. L. DuNLAP moved that the fee for membership of this Society 

 be reduced to one dollar per annum, which was seconded by several 

 members. • 



He urged that it was the province of the Society to disseminate 

 horticultural information as well as to gather it. That inasmuch as the 

 State appropriates the sum of two thousand dollars per annum for the 

 publication of our reports, and for other purposes, we should not restrict 

 the circulation of these reports by keeping the fee at two dollars, and so 

 far defeat the object of our organization and the design of the General 

 Assembly in gi^anting the appropriation. 



When the membership fee has been but one dollar, we have had more 

 members than when it was two dollars. As each member is entitled 

 to a copy of the Transactions, of course a greater circulation is gained 

 at one dollar. We should aim to distribute all, or nearly all, our books, 

 and not keep them on hand from year to year. 



Mr. HuGGiNS^ Treasurer, said: "We receive more money when 

 memberships are two dollars each, but not as many members." 



The Secretary stated that he had solicited from the State Agricul- 

 tural Society two hundred copies of its last volume of Transactions, for 

 gratuitous distribution among the members of this Society. These books 

 have" arrived, and are now ready, so that each member of our Society 

 will receive not not only a bound copy of our Transactions for 1S70, but 

 a copy of the Transactions of the Agricultural Society for two years, 

 which includes, also, the Transactions of our own Society for the years 

 1867 and 1 868. With these inducements before them, he thought all 

 who would join our Society at all, would do so with the fee at two dollars; 

 and thus bring twice as much money into the treasury as if changed to 

 one dollar. This, in the present low state of our finances, is a matter of 

 serious importance to us. 



Mr. Brown, read from the Transactions of the Society, as follows : 



In 1865 there were 80 members at $2.00 $i6o.oo. 



" 1866 " 128 » " i.oo 128.00. 



" 1867 " 125 " " 2.00 250.00. 



" 1868 " 161 " " 1.00 161.00. 



" 1869 " 133 " " 2.00 266.00. 



