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Europe, Asia aud Australia. Our colleges are asking for them for the 

 boys who are following this line of study and investigation, or for 

 those who expect to take up the work in a practical way. 



Our old bank account at Nevada has not been settled, and we- 

 have only received about $75 as the first installment. The thieves who 

 so boldly and wantonly robbed us of that fund are in a likely way of 

 getting into the penitentiary, and we can only hope they may be com- 

 pelled to refund the money and spend their lives there. 



Mr. Logan writes that every effort is being made to bring them ta 

 time in their robbery. 



Our finances and the condition of the same will be presented to- 

 you by our worthy Treasurer. 



The work is growing aud the expense is increasing, and it is neces- 

 8 ry now to spend most of one's time either on the state work travel- 

 ing about the country, or in the office answering questions or helping 

 locate some one in the State. 



Never a day passes but that I have to answer some questions per- 

 taining to fruit-growing or locating a fruit farm. Over 1500 letters have 

 been sent out in answer to such questions and inquiries, and in the 

 business matters of the Society. Six thousand circulars and report 

 cards have been sent out and collected. Reports have been made of 

 these to the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture and sent out 

 with his reports. Each year the work is growing and increasing and 

 improving. 



The work of the State Society in its connection with the World's 

 Fair will be an important one the next two years. J. 0. Evans, our 

 President, has been appointed to take charge of the matter for the 

 State, and $10,000 has been set aside for the work. It behooves us to 

 take the utmost care and pains with all our fruits this year, and to put 

 up in jars some 1200 or 1500 varieties. 



We will need, also to put in cold storage, something like 300- 

 barrels of choice apples to use for display before our fruits begin to 

 ripen in the year 1893. Places of deposit will be had in three or four 

 of our towns for such deposit, and all our apples from about Maiden's 

 Blush time until the end of the season will have to be put into storage 

 as well as into jars. You therefore see that an immense quantity of 

 fruit will have to be collected and cared for. It is our part to take this- 

 work upon us, and we are sure the fruit men of the state will not fail. 



The work of the Experiment Station has been very unsatisfactory 

 indeed to the fruit-grower. First we had a good earnest man, Prof. 

 Taft, who now is in the lead at the Michigan Agricultural College, and 



