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FILES OF REPORTS SENT OUT IN 1903. 



E. A. CUZNER, ASST. LIBRARIAN. 



Jan. 3, 1903, Thomas E. Cashman, Owatonna. 



Jan. 3, 1903, M. R. Cashman, Owatonna. 



Jan. 3, 1903, W. H. Hart, Owatonna. 



Jan. 10, 1903, Preston McCulley, Maple Plaine. 



Jan. 20, 1903, B. E. St. John, Fairmont. 



Jan. 22, 1903, U. S. Pomologist. Washington, D. C. 



Feb. 26, 1903, W. A. Peterson. 164 La Salle St., Chicago, III. 



April 2, 1903, Otto Schell, New- Ulm. 



April 16, 1903, Hon. F. W. Taylor, Dept. of Hort., St. Louis. Mo. 



April II, F. F. Fletcher, Minneapolis. 



Prof. F. Wm. Rane, Durham, N. H.. care N. H. College. 



Aug. I, 1903, Lloyd Library, Cincinnati, Ohio. 



Oct. 15, 1903, A. A. Thomas, 2479 Kenmore Ave., Chicago, 111. 



Nov. 5, 1903, Rev. P. M. McTeague, Preston, Minn. 



Dec. 26, 1903, Peter Siverts, Canby. 



Dec. 26, 1903, G. A. Anderson, Renville. 



Dec. 26, 1903, Paul Burtzlaff, Stillwater. 



Dec. 26, 1903, M. A. Eliason. Appleton. 



Dec. 26, 1903, Prof. N. E. Hansen, Brookings, S. D. 



THE WISCONSIN STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



A. D. BARNES, DELEGATE FROM WISCONSIN. 



We come to you with cordial greetings, loyal praises, and 

 humbled thanksgivings to one Deity, the Giver of all good, for the 

 great blessings and prosperity, the bountiful crops, health, happiness 

 and luxuries of the past seasons. Surely we ought to be grateful 

 and bow with humble submission and piety for all these and other 

 untold blessings. 



Death has called from our front -ranks only two of our number 

 during the past year. Our honored and respected Z. K. Jewett, 

 of Sparta, and Henry Tarrant, of Janesville, have gone hence from 

 among us — and I know you, too, with us mourn their departure. 

 Their work is done, their last tree is planted, their last vine trimmed, 

 they surely have gone to their reward. They were good men, and 

 we trust the world has been made better for their having lived in it. 

 We shall miss them and their congenial greetings, their sober and 

 careful council, their examples and influences. 



Drought, deluges, pests and cyclones have not been numerous 

 nor devastating ; frosts, blight and vermin less destructive than for 

 many seasons past. Crops, with the exception of fruits and potatoes, 

 have been abundant, prices on almost everything satisfactory. 

 Scarcity of competent, willing and trustworthy laborers is the great- 

 est discouragement and defeat to rural prosperity, yet I feel safe 



