218 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



have been submitted to the Governor about the 1st of August 

 and then it takes all the way from 60 to 90 days and some- 

 times longer for the printers to get through with them. 



Mr. Davidson : !So that we may expect these reports prob- 

 ably by State Fair time or a little later? 



Secretary Marshall : Yes, sir, probably by State Fair time. 



A Member : ^Vheu do we get them this year? 



Secretarj^ Marshall ; It is in the press no^^', but has been 

 held up on account of sonie of the papers iMr. llussell could 

 not get hold of. 



Mr. Davidson : This 1909 report is over a year behind. It 

 should have been out last fall, in September, and I think this 

 delay deprives us of 50 per cent of its worth. 



Secretary Marshall : I think that is so, but I am not re- 

 sponsible for the previous reports. I am going to try to get 

 out this one for this year on time, but the printers have the 

 advantage of us. The law says they have 60 da3^s from the 

 time the last proof is returned to them before they have to de- 

 liver the books; they can hold up the books. AVe usually do 

 not send in all the material at one time, and they can hold it 

 up for any length of time they please until the last proof is 

 turned in and then they have 60 days beyond that if they want 

 it and they can keep putting us off. The man who printed 

 the 1909 report is anxious to get it off his hands. It was over 

 100 days from the time the last proof was turned in until we 

 got the first copies of the 1908 report. They were about 50 

 days over the limit of 60 days, and then they would deliver 

 from 50 to 100 reports a week. I called the company up very 

 often, nearly every day for two weeks to ask about it, and it 

 was several weeks before we could get enough reports to sup- 

 ply the members. I would send out a few one week and the 

 next week would get 50 or 100 more. We have received about 

 2,000 reports up to this date, but we 'are ahead now and will 

 have several hundred reports on hand from now on. I want 

 to say for Mr. Davidson's benefit that the report probably al- 

 ways will be delayed some, but this bulletin system gets out 

 the best of it a little quicker. 



