OFFICIAL REPORTS. 15 



FINANCIAL REPORT. 



KECEIl'TS. 



Life Mieinbersliip fees $34.00 



Advertisements in magazine 94.75 



Subscribers from Wisconsin society 3.50 



Paper sold .50 



Annual fees for IS'.),") 410.00 



Annual fees for 181KJ 4L00 



Total $583. 75 



DISBUKSEMKXTS. 



Postage $09.00 



Express 52. 04 



Directing- and mailing magazine 15.40 



Commission on memberships ILOO 



Rei^orting meetings 39.35 



Ofiice rent 132.00 



Expenses of delegate to Wisconsin 11.50 



Printing 93.65 



Assistance in the office 37.15 



Sundries 32. 18 



Total $573,817 



Secretary's Office. — You may be interested to know something 

 of the internal workings of the secretary's office. When I assumed 

 the office in Januar}', 1891, the legacy from my predecessor consisted 

 of a record book for the executive committee— which is still in use — 

 and the membership stubs for the previous year. Evidently up to 

 that time it had not been the plan of the management to introduce 

 elements of permanence into this department of the society, other- 

 wise than through the preservation of the printed reports. With- 

 out taking up your time to record the successive steps which have 

 brought the oilice to its present stage of comparative development, 

 I will refer briefly to the conditions now prevailing. The corres- 

 pondence of the office is filed away for convenient reference, and 

 this has been done during tlie live years of my service. There are 

 inembership rolls in a substantial form sHowing by years, and also 

 alphabetically, the annual membership since the organization of 

 the society. There is ahso a similar roll for life and honorary mem. 

 bers. There is an ofiicial record of the officers of the society since 

 its beginning. In connection with the library there are two record 

 books, the first of which is called the accession record. In this is 

 recorded the title of every book as received and some other facta 

 relating thereto. Each book ia given a number in this roll. There 

 has been prepared another record book for use in the library which 

 has not yet come into play, but it will be needed later. Besides these 

 are several other minor record books, containing lists of ofticers of 

 other horticultural societies, fruit groweis of the state, subscribers 

 to our magazine, etc. The accounts of the society are kept in a ledg- 

 er which shows in full the receipts and disbursements of the office 

 and all personal debits and credits, of which there more or less con- 

 nected with the advertising, life memberships, etc. 



