Seventy-Third Annual Report 1305 



The President: I hold hero a report from the Auditing 

 Committee appointed yesterday morning, which roads as follows: 



'' Yonr committee examined the accounts of your Treasurer jMr. 

 Winters, and found them correct in every respect accord inc; to 

 report made by him to the society." 



(Signed) C. E. White, 



William Hayden. 



On motion the report of the treasurer was accepted and filed. 



Mr. Dillon: Our treasury is not very much burdened with 

 funds and we do not have a very extensive membership. It 

 seems to me that we ought to make some little effort to increase 

 the membership and incidentally the funds. 



Now to put that thought in concrete form I want to suggest,— 

 you can accept it as a motion if you like, — that the secretary, 

 treasurer, executive committee or the officers in general, prepare 

 a circular letter to send out to a list of at least 10,000 to 25,000 

 farmers in this state about the first of next Januarv. announcing' 

 our annual meeting, giving some little intimation as to what the 

 convention is going to be and what it is going to discuss, and asking 

 for memberships ; life members, or the option of an annual mem- 

 bership to those who do not feel that they can come in with a life 

 membership. That will not entail an expense in excess of $100 

 and I think it ought to materially increase our membership, and 

 very much increase our revenues. If that thing could be contin- 

 ued year after year, and probably increased if the returns war- 

 ranted it, we might have a society here that would be larger than 

 we have at present. 



The President : Mr. Sessions, in his report for the Committee 

 on Publicity, spoke of returns from a circular letter sent out at 

 an expense of $20. He received $180 and 20 annual members, 

 they took in $205 with their o\\ti time and energy. That is an 

 indication of what might be done. 



Mr. Sessions: We sent out about 1,050 letters but they were 

 not sent to a list such as is proposed by Mr. Dillon. They were 

 simply sent to each member asking that member to constitute him* 



