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be declared elected treasurer of this society for this ensuing year, for, I 

 think, the twenty-third or twenty-fourth time. 



Seconded. Carried. 



The Chairman: We have also a director to elect, Mr. Yager being 

 advanced to the vice-presidency and his term of office having closed. 



Mr. Henderson: The florists' society has only one representative on 

 the board, while the others have all the rest. I think we should have 

 two representatives on the board, and we will try to do all we can for it 

 as we have in the past, and therefore I would like to have another florist 

 on the board. One florist gets pretty lonesome and he should have another 

 fellow with him, to help him out once in a while, and that would be only 

 fair play to the rest of the members, and therefore I have great pleasure 

 in nominating Mr. Ed Williams of Grand Island. 



A Member: As the apple industry is one of the leading industries 

 of the state of Nebraska, and as we want a good, live man to help push 

 this movement along, I nominate Mr. Harrison of York. 



No further nominations. Vote taken by ballot. Ballots counted. Mr. 

 Harrison of York receives 31 votes, and Mr. Williams of Grand Island 11. 



The Chairman: I therefore declare Mr. Harrison of York elected as 

 director for the next three years. This, I believe, ends the election of 

 officers. 



OTHER BUSINESS. 



The Secretary: The Horticultural Society last year started to hold 

 horticultural institutes in different parts of the state. We are now 

 arranging for a series to be held the week of the 17th of February. We 

 are starting up about Florence or Blair, and coming down the river, and 

 then we have arranged to come to Nebraska City and Peru and Brown- 

 ville and Shubert. If we are going to hold those institutes we want the 

 members that live near those places to get busy and help work up interest 

 for these meetings. It is pretty hard to do all the work from this end, 

 and we would be very glad for you people that live there to co-operate 

 with us. At Brownville and Peru and Florence the local organizations 

 will co-operate with us. 



Mr. Henderson: I make a motion that the president appoint a com- 

 mittee to revise the premium list. A committee of three, or whatever is 

 customary. 



The Chairman: Three would be plenty, 1 think. 



Seconded. 



A Member: I would like to ask if it has not been customary, and 

 if not, why not, for this matter to be referred to the Board of Directors? 

 Let them take up this work. It is quite a job and the directors are paid 

 for their work and let them do it. The usual course has been that this 

 committee reports to the Board of Directors and the board makes the 

 necessary revision. The revision must of necessity be made by the board. 

 It could not be done in the whole society, because it would take too much 

 time. The board revises the work of the committee. It must be gone 

 over a second time, section by section and item by item, and either 



