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Our library is fast filling up, over three hundred volumes hav- 

 ing been added the past year, and the secretary feels the need of 

 enlarged quarters, but this will cause an additional expense in 

 rent and bookcases, and the society should decide at the present 

 time whether we shall make a change to new rooms. Special in- 

 terest the past years in seedling apples has made it apparent to 

 the committee that larger premiums should be offered, and ac- 

 cordingly we have expended sixty dollars in this way, hoping to 

 give added attraction in the development of apples adapted to the 

 climatic conditions of our state. 



SECRETARY'S ANNUAL REPORT, 1901. 



A. W. LATHAM, SECRETARY. 



The year closing with the present annual meeting has been a 

 prosperous and successful one for the society which I have the 

 honor of serving as secretary. 



The membership has continued to increase, until now the united 

 roll of life and annual members is just above the coveted number 

 of one thousand. At the date of writing the total number of annual 

 members for 1901 stands at 895. There were on this roll last year 

 803, making an increase the present year of 92. The life roll con- 

 tains now 100 names; to make up this number there have been 

 added the past year 15 names; two to the honorary life roll, viz.: 

 J. M. Underwood, of Lake City, and A. K. Bush, of Dover, Minn., 

 and 13 to the paid roll. The names of these new members are as 

 follows : 



C. L. Larson, Winthrop, Minn. 



Wm. L. Dickerson, Richland, S. D. 



Chas. F. Schaupp, Hart, Minn. 



Wm. H. Dunwoody, 52 S. Tenth St., Minneapolis, Minn. 



C. F. Wheeler, 602 Oneida Block, Minneapolis, Minn. 



T. B. Macauley, Montreal, Canada. 



Hamlin V. Poore, Bird Island, Minn. 



Ellsworth Scranton, Montrose, Minn. 



Daniel Smiley, Mohawk Vale, N. Y. 



A. B. Lyman, Excelsior, Minn. 



C. M. Loring, 102 Clifton Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. 



David Secor, Winnebago City, Minn. 



C. C. Hunter, Minneapolis, Minn. 



From this roll are to be taken the names of three members who 

 have been called from our ranks by death during the past year: 



Wm. Mackintosh, Langdon, Minn. 



John S. Harris, La Crescent, Minn. 



H. W. S. Cleveland, Chicago, 111. 



The result of these changes in the life roll have changed the 

 figures to 100, as above stated. There are besides six honorary 



