266 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



The following letter was read by the secretary: 



Harlan, Iowa, December 21, 1908. 

 This is to certify that J. M. Bechtel, of Hamburg, Iowa, is the duly 

 appointed and accredited delegate of the Iowa State Horticultural 

 Society to the annual Meeting of the Nebraska State Horticultural 

 Society at Lincoln, Nebraska, January, 1909. 



W. M. BOMBERGER, 

 President of Iowa State Horticultural Society, 



By unanimous vote of the society, Mr. Bechtel was made an Annual 

 Honorary member of the Nebraska State Horticultural Society. 



Mr. Bechtel: Mr. Chairman and members of the Nebraska Horti- 

 cultural Society: I am not going to make a speech, but I want to thank 

 you for this honor, which you have just extended to me. I had the 

 pleasure of attending your last meeting, and I must say that I derived a 

 great deal of benefit from it. I came over here just to get some items of 

 interest and information, and I am being satisfied. I have nothing 

 further to say just at present, but I hope to have the privilege of just 

 sitting here and taking in the talks and discussions. All of us have 

 many interests in common, and I want to get all the information I can 

 while I am here. Over in our section of the country we are getting up 

 considerable interest in horticulture by the organizaions of local associa- 

 tions. I live only four miles from the Nebraska line and a short dis- 

 tance from the Missouri state line, and we have a good local association 

 there. We had a very successful meeting this fall and a good fruit show 

 too, and we are looking for a continual increase of interest along hort- 

 cultural lines. But all I want to do now is to listen to the papers and 

 discussions that are going on here. Thank you. 



The President: I know I can say for our society that we are very 

 gald to have Mr. Bechtel here with us, and we hope that he will feel 

 at home here in our meetings and take part in the discussions, too. 



Mr. Williams: I want to call the attention of the society to a new 

 organization here at the State Farm, known as the "Nebraska Budders." 

 This society was started here about two years ago, and the plan was to 

 include the young men here who were especially interested in horti- 

 culture. The object of this organization is a very worthy one and it is 

 something that our society should encourage in every way possible. I 

 believe most of the young men are here today, and if the President of the 

 society is here we would be ylad to hear from him. 



President of the "Nebraska Budders:" Mr. Chairman, our society 

 was started here at first with only about a half dozen of the fellows 

 interested in the subject of horticulture generally. We have grown since 

 then and now have about forty members, and of this forty, about twenty- 

 five are active members. The plan of our society is that each man indi- 

 cate what particular branch of horticulture he is interested in, and some 

 have interested themselves in strawberry raising, some in grape culture. 



