SECRETARl S ANNUAL REPORT, I903 25 



I should note here that the pubhc printers, Harrison & Smith 

 Co., increased the issue of magazines 200 and reports 100 at their 

 own expense to help us out this year. 



Some changes have taken place in the office of the society during 

 the year, the most important of which being the purchase of a suffi- 

 cient number of Wernicke book cases, with closed glass fronts, to 

 contain what books are now in the library, but on account of the 

 limited dimensions of the office not less than sixty bundles of books, 

 averaging ten each, have been stored elsewhere for safe keeping until 

 such time as increased accommodations will permit their being placed 

 upon the shelves again. Most of these books, however, are reports 

 of a character for which there is very little present use. 



The increase in the work of the society incident to increase of 

 membership, in part also to other work referred to later, has made 

 it necessary to employ a clerk, who is also a stenographer, for the 

 prompt and efficient carrying forward of the w-ork of the society. 

 This has added somewhat to the expense of the management but all 

 of these added expenses are in the direction of efficiency and still 

 find us well within the limits of our income. 



There have been added to the library of the society, aside from 

 the society reports, forty-eight volumes, two by purchase and the 

 balance by exchange from the other similar organizations. 



The experiment station bulletins, nearly all of which from the 

 beginning of this experimental work have been coming into the 

 office, have the present year been classified and entered in a register 

 suitably prepared under topics, so that whatever information is to be 

 found in these bulletins upon any particular subject can in most 

 cases be readily located. This has already proved to be a great 

 convenience to those who are interested in looking up subjects per- 

 taining to horticulture. Of course this and any other material in 

 the library is open not only to the members of the society but to 

 the general public as well, it being our purpose to do all the good 

 we can regardless of fraternal relationship. 



The two meetings of the society that have been held the past 

 year have probably been the most largely attended in its history, and 

 the amount of premiums paid for fruit exhibited may be -taken as 

 some indication of their success. There was paid for this purpose 

 at the last winter meeting $174.95, and at the late summer meeting 

 $136.25. 



In connection with the program of this meeting a special efifort 

 has been made to secure from the vice-presidents and superintend- 

 ents of trial stations such reports as were evidently intended to be 

 presented by the constitution as it refers to these officers, and that 



