PROCEEDINGS OF THE WINTER MEETING. 25 



with which to make an exhibit, I move we adopt his suggestions; but we 

 have never had any assurance that we (the committee) had any control o£ a 

 dollar of it. We have been told to go home and raise the money ourselves, 

 the $4,000 nominally appropriated for our use being only for costs of 

 transportation. For information of those unacquainted with the state of 

 affairs, Mr. Gaefield rehearsed the facts brought out at the Ann Arbor 

 meeting, and continued: There is no courtesy we would not do our presi- 

 dent, and if he can tell us how we may carry out his suggestions, we are 

 ready to adopt them. 



Mr. Lyon: A committee might be appointed to go to the commission and 

 ask that they turn over to the society the $4,000, or such portion of it as 

 may be, to help accomplish the object. 



Mr. Watkins: We must be careful of our reputation, which is high, 

 and not go to Chicago in competition with states which are backed by 

 plenty of money. We would better stay away and repose upon our repu- 

 tation won on former occasions. 



Mr. Kellogg favored letting the matter entirely alone, and leaving the 

 responsibility for the faihire upon the commission, which certainly has 

 shown not the least capacity to deal with the matter. He moved that, in 

 view of the indifference of the commission, and of the late date, we 

 decline to further consider the question. 



Mr. Monroe thought it better to hold it in abeyance, for, being at the 

 very door of the exposition, we must surely make an exhibit. 



Mr. Morrill: It must be understood that this statement of Mr. Lyon 

 comes from him as chairman of the committee, not as president of this 

 society. 



Mr, Monroe: The state society applied for the exhibition space. It 

 was granted, but when I went there recently I found so many conditions 

 to be fulfilled that I dared not accept it for the society, and so insisted 

 upon Mr. Stevens doing it, in behalf of the commission. We applied for 

 5,000 feet of space. There were many other applicants, and so it eventu- 

 ated that only 499 feet were given us, within which were two tables only. 

 New York, adjoining us, was given only the same amount. We are in 

 good company — New York, California, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Missouri — 

 but it is company that has plenty of money, and so we are at a serious 

 disadvantage. Other states are preparing elaborately, spending. in some 

 cases, so much as $3,000 for designs and constructions for the exhibits. 

 By the first of September, 2,500 feet more will be assignable to Michigan. 

 There is enough of the canned, wax, and cold-storage fruit to fill the tables. 

 If we may have money, we can make a good showing of next season's 

 fruit, after Sept. 1. If the state grants the proposed extra $50,000, we 

 4 



