494 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



in Illinois, and especially the state meeting at Springfield the 27-29th 

 of December. (Applause). 



The meeting then adjourned until 1:30 p. m. 



Friday Afternoon Session. 



The meeting was called to order at 1:30 by the president. 



Mr. J. C. Hawkins called up the resolution offered by him at 

 a previous session regulating the entrance fee of auxiliary 

 societies to the state society, and moved its adoption. 



Mr. Hawkins: You will notice that in the proposed amendment 

 we make it obligatory on an auxiliary organization to be represented 

 here by regularly authorized delegates. Under the present rule we 

 are not required to do that. Any one can come here or not as they 

 see fit. We are not represented here officially or regularly, but under 

 the proposed change we would be represented. It also provides 

 that all the papers and reports shall be transmitted to the secretary 

 for publication. Now in regard tp the matter of money. I started 

 out with this matter in hand two years ago in our Southern Minne- 

 sota society, and as an inducement for members to join the society, 

 I said: "Join this society and pay your dollar and gel the benefit of 

 the reports, then we will keep twenty-five cents of it and the other 

 seventy five goes to the state society" I was met with this argu- 

 ment, and it is the hardest to meet: "There are no horticulturists 

 that are not taxpayers, and these reports are published at the state's 

 expense, consequently we are entitled to them." I told them that 

 was a narrow view to take, but it was broad enough to be entitled to 

 consideration. Then there is another point, the 'smaller the mem- 

 bership the more is required of them. My experience with those 

 auxiliary societies throughout the country is that twenty members 

 is more than an average for each society, and if I were to make any 

 difference in the amount to be paid I would require more from the 

 larger society than from the smaller, because if you take seventy- 

 five cents from the smaller, or where they have not more than twenty 

 members, they will not have enough to pay for their programs. Our 

 society is the strongest in the state, and last year we ran up to about 

 one hundred, and, as the president knows, we had a large and en- 

 thusiastic meeting. I put lots of work into it, as did others also, and 

 we had a successful meeting, but at the same time some of us had 

 to go down into our pockets to foot the bills. I do not want to cut 

 loose from the state society, we want to make both societies stronger 

 and more progressive, and I trust you will see that this can be done 

 by the amendment proposed. 



The motion to adopt the amendment referred to being put to 

 a vote, unanimously prevailed. 



"Wisconsin Seedling Apples of Value in Minnesota." A. J. 

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