496 MIN^NESOTA STATE IIOKTtCrLTrKAL SOCIETY. 



The ballots for president having been counted, it developed that 

 Prof. Samuel B. Green was the unanimous choice of the society, 

 and he was declared duly elected. 



The Chairman : Ladies and gentlemen, I take great pleasure 

 in introducing to you our next president, Prof. S. B. Green. (Ap- 

 plause.) 



Prof. S. B. Green : I thank you very much for this manifesta- 

 tion of your confidence in me, and I will try to merit it to the 

 best of my ability. I believe I can do this work to your satisfac- 

 tion. If I did not, I would not take it, and I believe a man knows 

 if he is big enough for the work he undertakes. I want to say to 

 you that I will do just as well as I know how to make the thing go 

 just as well as I can make it go and make it as near as possible to 

 my ideal. I thank you very much for this honor, because I really 

 esteem it as a great honor. It is not anything that had to be worked 

 up in which there was opposition, but it was a unanimous election, 

 and I feel extremely proud in a modest way to have this office at 

 this time. I thank you again. (Applause.) 



As members of the executive board, Messrs Frank Yahnke and 

 Wyman Elliot were placed in nomination for the regular three-year 

 term and Mr. Clarence Wedge to fill the vacancy caused by the ele- 

 vation of Prof. Green to the office of president. 



At "this point the retiring president, Mr. Wedge, called to the 

 platform Prof. Green, who assumed the duties of president. 



The President : The vice-presidents are all members from the 

 various congressional districts, and this will explain the reason why 

 these are all new men, and unless objection is made, the same course 

 of election will be followed that was followed last year. It is the 

 suggestion again of the executive board that the plan should be car- 

 ried out again this year. 



The ballot for treasurer being announced, Mr. Strand was de- 

 clared duly elected. 



A ballot having been taken for members of the executive board, 

 the nominees named were declared unanimously elected. 



Mr. Wyman Elliot placed in nomination the following names 

 for vice-presidents representing their respective congressional dis- 

 tricts: 1st, Mr. j. W. Ramsden, Winona; 2nd, Mr. Wm. Pfaender, 

 Jr. New Ulm ; s'rd, Mr. J. M. Walden, Northfield ; 4th, Mr. T. T. 

 Bacheller, Forest Lake; 5th, Mr. W. S. Higbie. Eden Prairie; 6th, 

 Mr. Ellsworth Scranton, ^lontrose ; 7th, Mn C. J. Orton, Marietta ; 

 8th. Mr. L. B. Arnold, Duluth ; 9th, Mr. Otto Kankel, Fertile. 



On motion of Mr. Elliot, carried unanimously, the sercetary was 

 instructed to cast the ballot of the society for the nominees. 



Mr. Elliot : It has the usual custom of our society for quite a 

 number of years to recommend for honorable life membership those 

 that have been efficient in the work of the society and of horticulture, 

 and at a meeting of the executive board it was decided that we would 

 thus honor Mr. Frank Yahnke, of Winona ; Mr. C. F. Gardner, of 

 Iowa ; and Mr. Geo. J. Kellogg, of Wisconsin, and I hereby ofter a 

 motion to that effect. 



