512 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: 



President— J. M. Underwood, Lake City. 

 Vice-Pres., let Cong- Dig. K. H. S. Dartt, Owatonna. 



S. D. Richardson, Winnebago City. 



Mrs. A. A. Kennedy, Hutchinson. 



R. S. Mackintosh, St. Anthony Park. 



Col. J. H. Stevens, Minneapolis. 



Mrs. Jennie Stager, Sauk Rapids. 



J, O. Barrett, Brown's Valley. 

 Members of Executive Board for term of three years — Prof. S. B. 

 Green, St. Anthony Park; Clarence Wedge, Albert Lea. 

 Treasurer — A. H. Brackett, Long Lake. 



Pres. Underwood: Ladies and Gentlemen: I will not take 

 time to say much in acknowledgment of the compliment you 

 have paid me. I regard it as a compliment, perhaps, to the 

 efficiency I have been able to give to the office, and appreciate 

 the compliment in the spirit in which you have rendered it, 

 and I will endeavor in the year to come to merit your 

 approval. 



Now that the election of officers is disposed of, we will take 

 up our regular program, and the next topic is an address by 

 Prof. W. W. Pendergast, our State Superintendent of Public 

 Instruction. 



Prof. Pendergast then delivered an entertaining and instruc- 

 tive address on the following subject: 



"Is it Practicable to Teach Horticulture in our Public 

 Schools, and How?" Prof. W. W. Pendergast, State Superin- 

 tendent of Schools. (See index). 



Pres. Underwood: We have Prof. Hays with us, and he is 

 prepared to talk to us about irrigation in Minnesota. I will 

 call for his address at this time. 



Prof. Hays then spoke briefly on the following subject: 



"Irrigation in Minnesota." Prof. W. M. Hays, St. Anthony 

 Park. (See index). 



Pres. Underwood: I wish to call the attention of the mem- 

 bers before adjourning to the program of this evening. It has 

 been the desire on the part of the executive committee in mak- 

 ing up the program to include in the program at some time the 

 members of the Agricultural School at the State Farm, and we 

 have on this evening's program a number of young men who 

 are to speak to us on various topics. You will notice the program 

 by the University Farm School, and what the program is. I 

 would bespeak for those young men coming here a large 

 attendance this evening, and I am sure the meeting will be of 



