94 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



ELECTION OF OFFICERS. 



The Chairman: The next in the way of business will be our business 

 meeting, and the election of officers. I presume of course the president 

 is the first one of the officers that will have to be elected. We are ready 

 for nominations. 



Mr. Christy: Mr. Chairman, I place the nomination of Mr. A. J. 

 Brown for president before you. 



The Chairman: Are there any other nominations? 



Mr. Barnard: If there are no further nominations, I move that the 

 rules be suspended and the secretary be instructed to cast the ballot of 

 the society for the election of Mr. A. J. Brown. 



Seconded. Carried. 



Mr. Brown declared elected. 



The Chairman: As there are two vice-presidents to be elected, nom- 

 inations for the office of first vice-president will be in order. 



G. A. Marshall: We have a resolution before us on commercial 

 horticulture. There is no question about it, and we have got to get up 

 and show what we are made of. We have to show what our state will 

 produce, and in order to do that we must have a superintendent of exhibits 

 who is a war horse, and one who knows horticulture, here or abroad, or 

 whatever you have a mind to send him. The first vice-president, by 

 virtue of his office, is superintendent of exhibits, and therefore in order 

 to get >such a man for that office, who will have all the qualifications 

 demanded for such an office, I place before you the name of our friend, 

 C. H. Barnard. 



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

 structed to cast the ballot of this society for the unanimous election of 

 Mr. Barnard. 



Seconded. Carried. 



Mr. Barnard was declared elected. 



The Chairman: Nominations for second vice-president are now in 

 order. Whom will you have for second vice-president? 



C. P. Beck: I want to place the nomination of Mr. J. R. Duncan of 

 Peru before you. He is a nurseryman and orchardist, and I think would 

 be a good man to fill the place. 



Mr. A. J. Brown: While I am a very good friend of Mr. Duncan, 

 and I hope that at some day in the future Mr.- Duncan will be elected 

 president of this society, for the good of our Horticultural Society we 

 should have a florist for that office. Now I want you to understand I 

 have not a word of objection to Mr. Duncan, he is a gentleman in every 

 sense of the word. But that is up to the florists for any man they want 

 for that office. 



The Chairman: It is necessary that this man be a florist, because 

 he presides over their show at the fair. And unless you have a florist I 

 do not imagine that the man presiding over that exhibit would be of 

 much value to the florists. 



