SECRENARY'S ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1898. 17 



need the aaaistaace of our kaowledge and experience ? What more 

 can, or ouerht, we to do than we are now doing? 



Oar society published this past year 1,200 naaofazines per month, 

 or 14,400 ia the year. If our membership are doing- their full duty, 

 as very many are doing, this means that a good many people see 

 our monthly, as our members do not retain them, being furnished 

 later with a cloth bound volume containing the same matter in a 

 permanent form. To supply the bound volumes needed for this 

 purpose consumes a large portion of the 1,800 that the present 

 state law provides for us, 300 of which are bound in paper. We 

 reach a good many people besides those referred to above through 

 the agency of the public libraries of the state, where our volumes 

 are to be found. But we are not satisfied. There must be other 

 channels through which we can reach the people. Shall we send 

 our monthly gratuitously to the public reading rooms and libraries 

 of the state and our bound volumes to the school libraries? Or 

 would it be well to endeavor to introduce the study of horticulture 

 into the public schools by the use of some simple primer, to which 

 a short time might be given, say once a week? Perhaps it might be 

 well, too, for the society to deal a little more liberally with the local 

 organizations if some plan could be devised to bring the horticul- 

 turists of each neighborhood into a local band, all of these local 

 organizations to become a part of the central society, which would 

 give it strength and increase the avenues through which the people 

 might be reached. 



The financial statement of the year is as follows: 



RECEIPTS. 



Advertisements in magazine $15138 



Books sold 3.75 



Express repaid .40 



Mileatie M. & St. L. R'y sold 13 50 



Ajfricultural Society 8 00 



Life fees 52.00 



Annual fees, 1895 25.00 



Annual fees, 1897 27.50 



Annual fees, I 98 61-1 00 



Annual fees, 1899 69.00 



Annual fees, 1900 1.00 



Hennepin County Savings Bank. 100.00 



Total $1,068.53 



EXPENDITURES. 



Stationery and printing $149.79 



Postage 



Postage on magazine 



Directing and mailing magazine 



Express 



Kepi>rting 



Engravings for magazine 



Expenses annual meeting 



Expenses delegates, etc 



Assistant librarian for 1887 



Books, etc., for premiums 



Insurance 



Office rent 



Office fixtures 



Office assistance, etc 



P. M. Gideon, aid in exp. work , 



Sundries 



Total '. $1.(68.53 



Deposited in Hennepin County Savings Bank $730.51 



to which amount some interest is to be added. 



