TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING. 79 



Life members, 205, the fund secured as follows: 



Birney Hoyt mortgages $1,000 00 



"W. N. Cook mortgages 350 00 



Lytell mortgages 300 00 



Snell mortgages . 300 00 



U. S. bonds 100 00 



Total $2,050 00 



Grand Rapids, Dec. 24, 1892. 



S. M. Pearsall, Treasurer. 



Tuesday Afternoon Session. 



Opening the afternoon session of Wednesday, Vice-President Garfield 

 gave a brief description of the work in which he is engaged, the collection 

 of a Michigan forestry exhibit for the World's Fair. 



The secretary read a letter from Mr. A. J. Knisely of Benton Harbor, 

 concerning former action upon the question of Sunday opening of the 

 World's Fair. At the Kalamazoo meeting, resolutions against opening 

 were passed, and in them allusion was made to the example said to have 

 been set by Edison the electrician in closing his exhibit on Simday at the 

 Paris exposition. Doubting if such had been the case, Mr. Knisely 

 wrote Mr. Edison, inquiring about it, and was answered that the Edison 

 exhibit was not closed on Sunday, so far as Mr. Edison knew, and if 

 closed it certainly was not done by his order, as he believed in keeping 

 such expositions open every day. 



Mr. Rice remarked that he "did not believe the society wished to take 

 the back track" on this question, and no action was taken. 



election of officers. 



The report of the committee on nominations, as follows, was unani- 

 mously adopted: 



President — T. T. Lyon of South Haven. 



Secretary — Edwy C. Reid of Allegan. 



Members of Executive Board — L. D. Watkins of Manchester, Prof. 

 L. R, Taft of Agricultural College. 



Later the board elected C. J. Monroe of South Haven vice-president. 



Mr. S. D. Willard of Geneva, N. Y., read the following paper upon 



POSSIBILITIES IN FRUITGROWING IN MICHIGAN. 



Prevailing low prices for all farm i^roducts, including not only the 

 cereals but cattle, sheep, swine, and horses, that have existed for some years 

 past, have become a source of such anxiety to all land owners as to increase 



