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is found necessary to do so. In many of these business enterprises it 

 is not her province to take control of them, but to assist every organi- 

 zation in accomplishing all ends which are for the best interests of the 

 fruit-grower. 



A LIBRARY. 



To accomplish all this and to increase the interest of our people, 

 we should have a library and place of abode. We now have a number 

 of hundreds of volumes, but we need a number of new books, a num- 

 ber of books of reference, a number of our old standard works. 



Nearly every prominent society has now a good library, and it is 

 an important matter, as well as a necessity, that some of these works 

 be put in our library. We want a place of abode and place of meeting. 

 This cannot be better accomplished than by having a good library for 

 reference. An hundred dollars or so spent for books will furnish a 

 better nucleus around which to draw our friends and members than can 

 be offered in any other suggestion we can take up. 



A LIST OF FRUITS AND FRUIT PLATES. 



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If we could have a lot of our best fruit plates collected and bound 

 together in good substantial binding for reference when we get mixed 

 up in our varieties, we could could more easily identify them and give 

 more satisfactory answers when called upon. 



To accomplish this end I have written to the Rochester Lithograph 

 company of Rochester for prices. They offer to furnish, in good binding, 

 the plates of as many of the varieties as we may want at seven cents 

 each, all alphabetically arranged. You can easily see how much help 

 this would be to us in finding varieties. I trust we may soon have the 

 money to do just this thing. 



An entomological work for beginners would be of wonderful as- 

 sistance to our young people, and if we could only get our entomolo- 

 gist, Miss Murtfeldt, to write such a work, it would, in all probability, 

 be adopted into our schools in time, and be of great benefit to us all. 

 The State Board of Agriculture agree to stand half of the expense if 

 we will. This is a matter important to our Executive committee, and 

 should be attended to at once in consultation with the State board. 



Our printing, as usual, is at the option of the State Printers. La»t 

 year we had to have it done after being sub-let by the Tribune com- 

 pany. This was done at the last moment, and was rushed through in 

 haste. We have the promise of the printers to begin the work in Jan- 

 uary and finish it up in due haste. 



