SUMMER MEETING AT OREGON. 119 



Our finances and expenses are about as usual. The greatest expense 

 being the postage on reports and the printing bills and crop reports. I find 

 our work and our society on the gain continuously, and as the fruit grow- 

 ers of the state take more and more interest in their work, more and 

 more do they think of our State Society and its importance as an ad- 

 junct to their business. As this continues and their interest grows, our 

 work improves and will become systematized, until we are united in one 

 strong band for the advancement of our cause ; until we work out some 

 of the theories to practical results, and until we can ask and get all the 

 help necessary for our work. 



Following is the receipts and expenditures^ of our work : Receipts, 

 $126,00; expended, $268,62. The report was received and referred to 

 Finance Committee. 



