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by offering all in premiums.— Dewain Cook, W. L. Taylor, com- 

 mittee. 



Mr. Cook moved the adoption of the report. 



There being no discussion offered upon the report, the motion 

 was put to a vote and the report of the committee was unanimously 

 adopted. 



The Chairman: Now as to the ways and means of carrying 

 this matter out, we would like to have some ideas on that point. 

 Are there any suggestions you wish to offer? Will you state, Mr. 

 Cook, just what you understand the idea of President Wedge to be, 

 just what he recommended? 



Mr. Cook: President Wedge suggested that premiums be 

 offered to members that produced superior fruit and flowers, and 

 it was recommended that these premiums be offered for the en- 

 couragement of people in various parts of the state, but the com- 

 mittee thought the executive committee would better understand 

 what to do with this matter, and so we reported no further. 



Mr. Underwood : At the meeting of the executive board on 

 Monday evening this question was considered, and there was a 

 resolution passed by the board that is very similar to the plan 

 proposed by the president in his address and referred to by the 

 committee. I do not know where the report of this board meeting 

 will come in, or whether it will come in Mr. Elliot's or Mr. Lath- 

 am's report, but it seems to me there is nothing special to do except 

 to adopt the report of this committee and refer this matter to the 

 executive board to carry out the provisions that are indicated in 

 the president's address. I do not know that we could intelligently 

 take it up at this session and work it out. I believe it would be 

 better to leave it as suggested by the report of the committee on 

 president's address. 



ANNUAL REPORT, EXECUTIVE BOARD, 1905. 



WYMAN ELLIOT, CHAIRMAN. 



The executive board has met only three times during the year, 

 and our expense account in connection with these meetings has not 

 exceeded $20. We made application to the state legislature at its 

 last session for an additional appropriation of $1,000 and an in- 

 crease of 1,000 in the issue of our reports. The increased printing 

 of the reports was allowed as requested, and we were granted an in- 

 crease of $500 in our annual appropriation. It is not an easy thing 

 to get an appropriation from our legislature although it may have 

 real merit, as in this case. 



As our secretary's annual report covers practically all the work 

 the executive board has done the past year, there is little need to 

 make an extensive report. The board has decided to urge greater 

 exertion on the part of the seedling committee in ferreting out 

 more of the worthy seedling apples over the state and to encourage 

 the growing of seedlings, and recommend that the society appro- 



