ANNUAL MEETING. 1894. 499 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON LIBRARY. 

 J. S. HARRIS. 



We have collected publications for the library of the State Horti- 

 cultural Societ}' during- the year 1S93 as follows : • 

 Bound in cloth — 



Statistics of Agriculture, tenth census of U. S. 



Report of the Secretarj- of Agrriculture, 1892. 

 In pamphlets — 



An Ag-ricultural Survey of Wj-oming'. 



The Russian Thistle and other Troublesome Weeds. 



Record of Experiments with Sorghum in 1S92. 



Record of Experiments with Sugar Beets io 1S92. 



The Most Destructive Locusts of America. Xorth of Mexico. 



Rice, its Cultivation, Production and Distribution. 



Report upon Numbers and Values of Farm Animals. 



Production and Distributign of the Principal Agricultural Pro- 

 ducts of the World. 



Report on Distribution and Consumption of Corn and Wheat. 



Report upon Investigations Relating to Treatment of Lumpy Jaw. 



Nostrums for Increasing the Yield of Butter. 



The Prairie Ground Squirrels. 



Report of the Secretary of Agriculture for 1893. 



Foods and Food Adulterants. 



Forest Influences, Bulletin Xo. 7. 



Report of Chief of Bureau of Forestry. 



Report on the Crops of the Year 1892. 



Reports of Statistican of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 eleven numbers. 



(The above have been deposited in the library.) 



Prof. Wm. R. Dobbj'n, editor of the "Progressive Age," then deliv- 

 ered an eloquent and interesting- address on the subject: "The 

 Horticulturist as a Reformer." 



Pres. L'nderwood: The next subject on our program is "Wind," 

 and who in our societj' can so ably bring out and develop this sub- 

 ject as our friend E. H. S. Dartt. of Owatonna? I take pleasure in 

 introducing Mr. Dartt: 



Mr. Dartt. Mr. Chairman, I do not know who can. unless it is the 

 last speaker. I did not much expect to come in after such a speech 

 as that, and I am a little in doubt whether I have the rig-ht. Xow 

 meat eaters and horticulturists, he does not seem to connect very 

 closely. I am a meat eater, and I think I have a majority on my 

 side. My idea in reg-ard to meat eating- is about as I expressed it on 

 a card I once wrote for a school boy. I used to teach school; don't 

 know that I was fit, but did. The card read thus: 



"The lion and the lamb are opposites, 'tis true. 

 Both natures form man, so let them blend in you." 



Xow, from the paper I am going to read he will say it is clearly 

 caused by meat eating propensities; I think it is, because it is some- 

 what personal, and I would like to make it personal all round, but I 

 did not have time to hit every one of you, though I have hit a few. 

 Then I have a class on "professors," and I would like to have you 

 all consider yourselves in that when I get to the class of ''pro- 

 fessors.'" (Laughter,. 



Mr. Dartt then read a ver^- entertaining paper on 



"Wind," E. H. S. Darlt, Owatonna. /"See indexj. 



