SUMMER MEETING AT BUTLER. 43 



COUNTY SOCIETIES. 



Let US have more county societies : A necessity to ourselves, to our 

 State, to our county, to our fruit growers, is a good society in different 

 parts of the State. A few of the fruit men — a dozen or so — are enough 

 to have a No. 1 horticultural society ia your county. And now that 

 the State society can aid you in this matter, I hope the fruit and vege- 

 table growers, nurserymen and fljrists will help in this good work. 



I hope to see the time when we will not only have a semi-annual 

 meeting, but a quarterly meeting each in different parts of the State, 

 and thereby enthusing new life into that part where the meeting is 

 held. I expect to see this in the near future ; this is one of the goals 

 to be reached. 



Farther than this, I hope and expect to go — and we will then have 

 the help we should have when our State will give us money enough to 

 do the work — I want three or four, chosen from the State society, who 

 will each month visit some one of our local societies, assist them in 

 their work, give them aid and advice. 



When this 13 done I know a new era will dawn on our State work. 



L. A. GOODMAN, 



Secretary. 



The following committees were appointed by the President : 

 Programme — E. P. ilenry, of Bates, 



D. S. Holman, of Greene, 

 W. G. Gano, of PJatte. 

 Finance — D. N. Thompson, of Bates, 

 F. Holsinger, of Kansas, 

 A. Ambrose, of Vernon. 

 Obituary — M. J. Roundtree, of Greene, 

 Ave E Page, of Bates, 

 H. B. Francis, of Bates. 

 Fruits — Henry Speer, of Bates, 

 J. A. Durkees, of Platte, 

 Jacob Faith, of Vernon. 

 Flowers — Mrs. Robards, of Bates, 



Mrs. Goodman, of Jackson, 

 Mrs. Ragan, of Jackson. 

 Final Resolutions — Z. S. Ragan, of Jackson, 



M. J. Rountree, of Greene, 

 E. T. Hynes, of Howell. 



