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only binding them together in organized enthusiasm and in- 

 stead of having only scores or hundreds you may run up into 

 thousands and so you will awaken enthusiasm in the whole 

 state? Every member, of a subordinate society must be a 

 member of the Horticultural Society, then these other socie- 

 ties, like the Florists, and others will arrange to have their 

 members pay twenty-live cents apiece. If possible, I wish 

 this matter could be brought up before this Society, and per- 

 haps it is just as well to discuss it. I offer a resolution that 

 this matter be left with this Society and that the other socie- 

 ties cooperate with them in their annual meeting. Perhaps 

 it would be well to fill up the three full days; the Florists 

 want half a day and the other societies want some time. You 

 are getting forestry by piecemeal. You are getting the flor- 

 ists' work, but of course the Florists is one society. The 

 Forestry Society is doing good work, and a great deal of hard 

 work. One-quarter of our state is a desolation, and we want 

 to transform the dollar land up in the sandhills into better 

 lands, and it can be done. I could show you reports that 

 would astonish you. There are the Kinkaiders up there, we 

 want to help to push them along. 



I move you, Mr. President, that this Society arrange to 

 have these other societies cooperate with us in their annual 

 meeting, and that the reports of those societies be published 

 in the report of this Society. Duly seconded by J. A. Yager, 

 and carried. 



QUESTION BOX. 



President Green : We will now have our question box, and 

 I will ask Mr. Davidson, of Aurora, to tell us about his grape 

 crop and the way he harvested it. 



Mr. Davidson : Mr. President and Gentlemen : 



I do not claim to be an authority on this line of work at all, 



yet I suppose I raised the largest crop of grapes this year 



ever in Hamilton county, over three tons. I have a little less 



tlian an acre, and I gave it thorqugh cultivation. We bad ^ 



