FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT. 105 



REPORT OF MID WINTER MEETING 

 Michigan Agricultural College, East Lansing, February 1, 2, 3, 1921. 



Meeting was called to order at 9:00 A. M. by the Chairman, Mr. G. 

 A. Hawley. 



Chairman : It is rarely that a man who grows up in an Institution of 

 this kind becomes its President. I do not need to say a word to you 

 in order to introduce the speaker. He is known by people from all parts 

 of the State. It gives me much pleasure to introduce to you President 

 Kedzie of this College. 



ADDRESS OF WELCOME PRES. F. S. KEDZIE. 



President Kedzie: Friends you are welcome to this Campus. This is 

 the first meeting of the State Horticultural Society here at this College 

 and I want to say that it gives us here unusual pleasure. It is something 

 that we have looked forward to for a long time, have wished for and 

 now it has come. Very few people understand that this Institution was 

 the outlook of Associations together as Agricultural and Horticultural 

 work. This Institution while it was mentioned in the first Constitution 

 and provided for in Michigan's first Constitution was recommended to 

 the Legislature for appropriate action by the Michigan State Horti- 

 cultural Society and my earliest recollection of the interest of this Society 

 in this College was a Sheep Breeders' Meeting which was held in the 60's 

 conducted by the Michigan State Horticultural Society on the Campus. 

 My earliest recollection of this Association represented here is that of a 

 meeting held in a little hall over a Grocery store in the City of Lansing. 

 The man who was instrumental in developing that work was a man by 

 the name of J. Tompkins and the work which is bearing fruit today in 

 this organization was begun by a number of the most energetic, enthus- 

 iastic men that Michigan has ever had. Nobody has ever worried 

 about the State Horticultural Society becoming ineffective. We welcome 

 you here to this room because this building represents man}^ of our 

 Agricultural efforts and in this room a number of very interesting and 

 very important meetings have been held, are held from day to day. 

 Here is where the Michigan Potato Growers' Association had, you might 

 call a scrap, which was one of. the most beneficial meetings that was 

 ever held in Michigan. 



So far as Organization is concerned here is where the Milk Producers' 

 Association meets and discusses vital problems. I hope that in the 

 meetings which follow this meeting of your organization you will feel that 

 at this place, of all places in the State, it is where you should during 

 each year hold, at least, one of your meetings. I have not talked this 

 over with Professor Halligan or any of the rest of the men who have been 

 associated with you so intimately but, I, on behalf of the Institution 

 am welcoming you here. I wish to express to you the feelings which I 



