490 BOAKD OF AGEICULTUinO. 



Mr. Apjjle: Mr. President, the Auditing Committee have the following 

 report to submit: 



"Your committee, appointed to audit the accounts of the Secretary and 

 Treasurer, report that they have cai'efully examined the books and 

 vouchers and find them to correspond with each other, and believe them 

 to be correct. 



Respectfully submitted, 



JOSEPH C. RATLIFF, 

 J. W. APPLE, 

 CHARLES N. LINDLEY." 



Mr. Swaim: I move that the report of the Auditing Committee be 

 accepted as read. ^ 



Mr. Grossman: I second the motion. 



The motion was voted upon and carried. 



President Stevens: We are now ready to hear the report of tho com- 

 mittee on the President's address. Mr. Swaim, will you take the chair? 



Mr, Swaim took the chair. 



Mr. Zion: To the Members of the Indiana Horiifultural Society— 

 Your committee, to which was referred the annual addre'fes of our Presi- 

 dent, W. W. Stevens, report that we found pleasure and instruction 

 in his review of the past and present horticultural conditions of the State 

 and the urgent need of our people being 'instructed in modern horticultural 

 methods and how to market their products— and that our society must 

 also enlarge its labors, become progressive, practical and businesslike in 

 order that it may meet and carry out the increasing demands of our 

 horticultural people and domestic consumers— that our people may no 

 longer be required to depend upoh New York and other far away states 

 for inferior "bulk" apples. 



We have carefully considered his recommendation that the horticul- 

 tural Interests of our state are now in such a promising condition as to 

 require the constant attention of a Secretary, and that our society shall 

 have exclusive use of Room 11, according to former arrangements, or 

 else secure other rooms that our exhibits, records and literature, may 

 be properlj' cared for, and that the otiice be open daily to the people 

 and the public. We recommend committees to secure financial means 

 and rooms as suggested. 



We also recommend a resolution that our Secretary be authorized to 

 Inform President Roor.evelt, the Postmaster General, and our Congress- 

 men and Senators that our society unanimously demand a parcel post 



