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the country as heretofore. If the society is to grow in the next 

 two years as in the past and the same method of distribution 

 continues — and any change from this seems to the writer of 

 doubtful expediency — it will be necessary to ask the legislature 

 for an increased printing appropriation. For the other expenses 

 of the society, the present income seems to be sufficient, unless 

 it is desired to occupy better and more expensive offices than 

 we now do. An additional office just across the hall from the 

 old one at present occupied has been rented this year. It is 

 used for storage purposes and as a private office, and its occu- 

 pation makes it possible to get along in the old location, with 

 which our members are now for so many years familiar. 



There has been added to the office equipment this year an 

 excellent safe, which insures us against loss of the society books 

 and records, and to this extent is a certain amount of relief to 

 the officers of the society. 



We have, as heretofore, continued to reach the public through 

 the Farmers' Institute. Mr. Frank Yahnke has during the past 

 institute campaign been with what is called the one day corps as 

 a representative of horticulture, and his work has received spe- 

 cial commendation from Mr. Gregg and general notice from oth- 

 ers who have known about what the institutes are doing. We 

 have felt a just pride in Mr. Yahnke's work in this position. 

 With the main corps, notwithstanding our solicitude in this re- 

 spect, there has been no horticultural lecturer except a few days 

 that Mr. A. J. Philips was with it ; but we have the promise of 

 Superintendent Gregg that this defect in the make-up of the 

 corps will be rectified this year and that some one satisfactory to 

 the officers of the society will be put in the field with the corps in 

 January. We understand that Mr. Yahnke will continue in his 

 old position. 



Aside from the North Dakota society referred to above there 

 have been two other new auxiliary societies added to our list 

 this year, one organized by Capt. A. H. Reed, at Glencoe, en- 

 titled the McLeod County Horticultural Society, consisting of 

 nineteen members ; and the other organized by T. A. Hoverstad, 

 at Crookston, entitled the Red River Valley Horticultural So- 

 ciety. Mr. Wyman Elliot and myself upon invitation assisted 

 in the organization of this latter society. The meeting was well 

 attended and resulted in securing twenty-four members. Prof. 

 Green and myself visited Glencoe also upon invitation of Capt. 

 Reed and attended the meeting of the society there in Septem- 

 ber. I may say that a number of our members, Mr. Elliot, Mr. 



