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vide them with funds to carry on their work. So I move that 

 the society appropriate $300 or as much as is necessary to 

 carry on that work. 



Motion seconded and carried. 



Mr. E. M. Pollard: I would iike to introduce the follow- 

 ing resolution: 



To the Chancellor and Regents of the State University: We, who 

 are members of the Nebraska State Horticultural Society, are 

 much pleased to find in your Seventeenth Biennial Report that 

 you say, "The duty confronts us, urged, and justly, by the 

 leading fruit growers in the state, of making ample provision 

 for investigating plant diseases. The demand must be met at 

 the earliest moment, and plant pathology made a regular line of 

 inquiry at the Experiment Station." 



We wish to commend most heartily this portion of your re- 

 port, and to urge upon you the absolute necessity of providing 

 for the beginning of this work the present year. The losses which 

 we have suffered from diseases affecting apple and cherry trees 

 within the past two years are so great that we feel that the Ex- 

 periment Station must not wait longer before taking up the 

 work of investigating the causes of the trouble. 



Do not let this matter fail. We ask that you carry out your 

 excellent suggestion in your Spring meeting, so that the work 

 may be begun this year. It is of vital inierest to us and the 

 fruit growing industry of the state is largely dependent upon 

 your favorable action. If you act now, you may be the means 

 of saving this industry. If you delay action, it will imperil its 

 very existence in the state. 



We hereby authorize our committee to call upon you and pre- 

 sent this matter further, and ask you to give them a favorable 

 hearing. 



Above resolution unanimously adopted by the society. 



Mr. Pollard: I move that a committee of three be appointed 

 to call upon the Chancellor and present this resolution, and do 

 it in such a way that it will be regarded as coming direct from 

 the society. 



Motion carried. 



