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APPENDIX, 5: f 
LOCAL AND COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES REPORTING. 
GERMAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF RAMSEY COUNTY. 
eae Meischer, St: Paul.'.'.'02 cscs scccce cecece escccsevcssecs ae es Presigent. 
A. Miller, St. Paul ee a Coee ee eeseee sees seseeeeseeses vase +++ Secretary. 
RICE COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
R. A. Mott, Faribault ....... Eiettaletata ate Ss onaentenonuonade coos eee President. 
A. W. McKinstry, Faribault... ....cccccecscoccccccccccsc cee «++--Secretary. 
NICOLLET COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Ernest Meyer, St. Peter............ tie sravlen Ridin a cuales tbat meee President. 
T. G. Carter, St. Peter. .ccse see secee cece cece eee Secretary and Treasurer. 
Nine members. 
This Society sends the following report : 
Annual meeting to be held on last Saturday in February of each 
year. Secretary authorized to call summer and autumn meetings 
at his discretion. 
Meeting mainly devoted to discussion of locust question, as this 
county and vicinity is well stocked with eggs. Paris Green recom- 
mended as a preventive (five parts flour to one part Paris Green) 
to keep them off from all kinds of garden vegetables, that being 
the experience of some of the members in 1875. Since our meet- 
ing the locusts have ruined the entire crop of strawberries and 
raspberries of §. D. Payne, of Kasota, one of our members, and 
have taken my grapes, strawberries and raspberries. Our Presi- 
dent, Mr. Meyer, has had a fair crop of strawberries and raspberries, 
