394 State Horticultural Society. 



SOME OF THE STATE SOCIETY WORK DONE THROUGH 

 THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



During all these years of wonderful growth, efficiency and 

 popularity of the State Society, the Executive Co'mmittee has never 

 lost sight of the best interest of the State, nor the best plan of se- 

 curing that interest, nor how to present our work to those in au- 

 thority; and results have always and under all circumstances, and 

 in all conditions, justified the action of the Executive Committee 

 in every instance. 



This Committee has never, in all its history, used any of its 

 own means or the funds of the State for any purpose, unless they 

 knew that it was for the "Good of the Society." Every dollar spent 

 has been with only one end in view, the upbuilding of our work. 



The right of the Executive Committee to spend this money has 

 never been questioned in all these years but by a few persons, who 

 had private interests alone to further, and yet never did anything 

 to help the Society in any of its work. 



The same authority which makes our annual and semi-annual 

 program pays for the speakers, offers premiums, pays postage, 

 pays stenographer and typewriter and all other expenses of the 

 Society. 



This same Executive Committee has the right, the power, the 

 authority, the privilege and the good judgment to spend these 

 funds for the needs of the Society and for the advancement of our 

 cause, and no one lias a right to deny this power except the Society 

 itself, the Governor or State Auditor, to whom an itemized account 

 is given every month, and during the last twenty-five years not one 

 item even has ever been called in question. 



As one item of the work of the Executive Committee, we pre- 

 sent the following statement of the reorganization of the Society 

 as only one of the instances where the Committee has worked for 

 the best interests of the Society, and this same kind of work has 

 always been done by the Executive Committee : 



THE REORGANIZATION OF THE MISSOURI STATE HORTI- 

 CULTURAL SOCIETY FORMING THE MISSOURI STATE 

 BOARD OF HORTICULTURE. 



Soon after the June meeting at Versailles, in 1905, I received 

 word from Mr. Chas. G. Miller of Boonville that there was a possi- 



