42 ANNUAL REPORT 



Mr. C. L. Smith stated that he had just returned from a trip 

 to the Eed Eiver Valley, in Dakota, and found the people eager 

 to learn how to grow strawberries. He asked for fifty copies of 

 the last report of the Society for 1886, for distribution through- 

 out the valley. 



On motion, the request was granted. The editor of the Farm, 

 Stock and Some, who was present, volunteered to distribute the 

 books free of expense to the Society. 



President Elliot. Friends, this is our first visit here to the 

 State University Farm, as a society, and I hope and trust it will 

 not be the last. I trust that another year we shall come with 

 our wives, our daughters, and our friends, and make a still 

 larger circle, and see if we can not encourage our friend. Prof. 

 Porter, in the good work which has been begun. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



