150 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. Harrison: A good bar of cheap soap rubbed up and 

 down on a tree will do it about as much good. 



Mr. Davidson : 1 want to ask the members if any of them 

 have tried whitewashing their trees with the refuse from the 

 gas plant. Parties have told me that it is the best white 

 wash for the trees there is and I want to know. 



Mr. Harrison: Does it consist of a lime jelly? 



Mr. Davidson: It is a caibide or coke. 1 have been told 

 that it was a good wash and I wanted to know if any one here 

 knew anything about it. 



Mr. Williams : 1 w ant to ask whether the minutes of the 

 last annual meeting, provided for in our Constitution, have 

 been read and approved by this or any other meeting? 



President Green: Sure, any business that was transacted 

 at the last winter meeting should have been read and ap- 

 proved at that meeting. The same members and the same 

 officers do not get back into open meeting again, and if it had 

 been necessary for them to have been approved they should 

 have been at that time and during that session. 



Mr. Beltzer: We have an organization like this in our 

 county and the minutes of each meeting are read and approved 

 or disapproved at the meeting the next year. 



Mr. Williams: What minutes were made of this meeting 

 last year and when we met this year should have been read 

 then, when we opened our meeting. 



Mr. Brown: I can tell you what the former practice of 

 the Hociety was. We read the report of the session, say the 

 report of this morning's session would be read this afternoon 

 and approved or rejected and at the close of the entire meet- 

 ing we have simply a half a day's session that carries over 

 and usually that is not a business session. 



Mr. Beltzer : Have we been following that rule? 



Mr. Brown : Years ago we did, I don't know whether they 

 have becm doing it lately or not. The reading of the minutes 

 of one session are approved at the following session. That 

 is always done while the matter is fresh in the minds of the 



