ANNUAL MEETING OF AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 65 



1VIINNESOTA STATE /AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, 1903 



Annuel meeting of the Agricultural Society. The annual session 

 of tliis organization, held in St. Paul, Jan. 13, 14, 15, was fairly 

 well attended. All branches of agriculture were represented on the 

 program, the one in which our society is especially interested having 

 as a mouthpiece Prof. S. B. Green, who talked an hour, on Wed- 

 nesday afternoon, on the general subject of "Progress in Horti- 

 culture," holding the close attention of a large and appreciative au- 

 dience. As the substance of this address will be given to our read- 

 ers later in the columns of this magazine, no further reference will 

 be made to it here except to say that it deals very largely with state- 

 ments showing the great progress made in the state in the various 

 lines of horticultural development. The writer of this was present 

 at that session and also at the session of the following morning when 

 the annual reports of the society were made, and officers elected. 

 An association of this kind that can show at the end of a year's work- 

 in the management of such a successful fair as was held by the so- 

 ciety in 1902 a fund of $55,000 in the treasury must be especially 

 well officered, and the delegates and members in attendance showed 

 their appreciation of this by re-electing with practical unanimity all 

 the retiring officers. Mr. J. M. Underwood was re-elected to his 

 position on the executive board without opposition, by a unanimous 

 vote. Following is a list of the present officers of the society : 



Officers and Board of Managers, 1903 : 



President — C. N. Cosgrove, Le Sueur. 



First A'ice-President — B. F. Nelson, Minneapolis. 



Second Vice-President— Chester R. Smith, St. Paul. 



Secretary — E. W. Randall, Hamline. 



Treasurer — F. J. Wilcox, Northficld. 



Board of Maiuigers : 



J. M. Underwood, Lake City, term expires 1906. 



L. D. Baird, Austin, term expires 1906. 



W. M. Liggett, St. Anthony Park, term expires 1904. 



W. G. Sawyer, Partridge, term expires 1904. 



N. S. Gordon, Crookston, term expires 1905. 



J. C. Curryer, St. Paul, term expires 1905. 



A full report of this meeting, including the discussions, will ap- 

 pear in the annual report of the Agricultural Society. A copy can 

 be secured by application to the secretary, E. W. Randall, Hamline, 

 Minn. 



. A. W. LATHAM, Secy. 



