202 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



CLASSIFIED DISBURSEMENTS. 



President's oflice .^13 66 



Secretary's oflice 19 98 



Treasurer's office 13 16 



Executive committee 170 63 



State Fair 335 26 



Back reports and exchanges 23 70 



Secretary's salary 600 00 



Transactions of 1S78 83 96 



Transactions of 1879 15 00 



Advertisi ng 50 



Fruit catalogue 184 79 



Traveling expenses. Secretary 9 70 



Printing 15 00 



Room in Capitol 7 90 



Delegate to Illinois and Indiana 35 00 



Telegrams, express, etc., unclassified ' 20 44 



Total disbursements for the year $1,548 68 



The above statement may not include all the expenses for the year, for there 

 may be bills outstanding ^vhich have not been presented ; only the checks 

 drawn in payment of bills are recorded in the Secretary's books. As far as I 

 know, however, there is scarcely anything standing against the society save 

 the expenses attendant upon this annual meeting. 



THE MICHIGAN FKUIT CATALOGUE. 



During the winter of 1878-0, President Lyon, with a very little assistance 

 from associates in various parts of the State, undertook the work of complet- 

 ing a fruit catalogue for our State, after the style ot the one issued by the 

 American Pomological Society, with some modifications to suit our especial 

 locality. It was a severe task, and undertaken by our President as a "labor 

 of love.'' He did his work upon it, oftentimes, when he should have been 

 resting, receiving for his labors scarcely any financial requitement at the hands 

 of the society. Aside from this gift of labor, the society put into the cata- 

 logue as has been seen in the above financial exhibit, $184.79. 



The executive committee hoped to greatly benefit planters in the State by 

 scattering this catalogue plentifully among them, and decided to send it out 

 for the cost of mailing, in pursuance of this thought, I issued the following 

 circular, which Avas placed in nearly every paper in this State, and all the 

 prominent agricultural papers in the United States: 



:miciiigan fhuit catalogue. 



The State Pomological Society has just issued a catalogue of Michigan fruits, which 

 describes all the prominent tested varieties and grades their value lor market, for 

 cooking and dessert purposes. The volume will be very valuable for planters in all 

 parts of the state, for it gives the adaptability of eacii sort to the various localities. 

 The catalogue is issued for the benefit of fruit growers every wliere, and can be secured 

 by enclosing a three-cent stam}) to Secretary 



CHAS. W. GAin^MHI.D, 

 Grand Kapids, Michigan. 



One nurseryman in the state, having expressed the desire to incorporate the 

 catalogue with his annual trade list, it was thought best to give all the same 

 liberty, and thus, perhaps, increase the infiueuce of the catalogue, so that the 

 following bulletin was issued to nurserymen: 



