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Mr. A. J. Brown: I wish to place before you the name of Lewis Hen- 

 derson, of Omaha, to fill the office of second vice-president. 



The Chairman (addressing Mr. Beck) : Would you withdraw Mr. 

 Duncan's name as a candidate? 



Mr. Beck: Let it go to a vote. 



Mr. Duncan: I wish to withdraw my name; I do not care to run at 

 all. 



Mr. Yager: Inasmuch as Mr. Duncan has withdrawn his name, I 

 move that the man suggested by Mr. Brown, L. Henderson, be made the 

 unanimous choice of this society. 



Seconded. Carried. 



MY. Henderson was declared elected. 



The Chairman: Nominations for the office of treasurer are now in 

 order. 



Mr. Yager: After all these twenty-four years I wish to place the 

 name of Peter Youngers of Geneva before you. 



There being no other nominations, Mr. Youngers was elected unani- 

 mously. 



yThe Chairman: We now have come to the point where we have to 

 elect a new director of the association. 



I\Ir. G. A. Marshall: We have quite a proper, I might say, list of 

 officers now, since we have placed Mr. Brov/n in as president, and all 

 these other men, and the treasurer, too, is also one of the board you 

 know, and he is twenty-four years in the harness. We had a little new 

 blood nominated a while ago for second vice-president, Mr. Duncan. Now 

 he is a young fellow.- I have been in the harness for so long I think 

 about all the glory has been gotten out of it by me that I want, and I 

 would like to place in nomination for that office the name of Mr. Duncan. 



Member: I move that the rules be suspended and the secretary be 

 instructed to cast the unanimous ballot of this society for J. R. Duncan. 



Seconded. Carried. 



Mr. Duncan was declared elected. 



At this point calls were given for a speech from Mr. Brown, the 

 newly elected president. 



Mr. Brown: Gentlemen, I am afraid that you will hear from me al- 

 together too much, if you have not already. I want to say to the mem- 

 bers of the State Horticultural Society that I very much appreciate the 

 honor you have given' nie. I can not say truthfully that it was not un- 

 announced beforehand. I can not say that I did not expect it, because 

 ther boys told me what they were going to do. And I knew they usually 

 kept their word. 



We have been told that we are right on the edge of aa evolution in 

 horticulture. We must take that into consideration. We have undoubt- 

 edly along the eastern border of this state the very best apple growing 

 region in the West. You gentlemen know that the state of Nebraska, 

 for seventy-five miles west of the river, has more real apple-growing land 

 than all this land in the far West that they talk so much about. The 



