HOKTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 243. 



LIBRAEIAN'S EEPOET. 



Mr. President: 



As most of the members are doubtless aware, the agricultural 

 building on the university campus was badly wrecked by fire on 

 the night of Sept. 26, 1888. Our reports suffered with other 

 things. Those on shelves or in cases were damaged but little, 

 while those piled on the floor were badly disfigured by the water 

 and ashes falling upon them. As soon as we could move things 

 out of the building, our president and secretary came over with 

 a large wagon and took away those most prized and such as 

 needed more room, to be dried at once, so as to save them if 

 possible. 



There is now in the old library the following: Eeports of 1866 

 to 1873, bound in cloth, 134 copies; 1874, paper 1,200; 1875, 

 paper, 75; 1876, paper, 160; 1877, paper, 350; 1878, paper, 130, 

 cloth, 31; 1879, paper, 4, cloth 1; 1880, cloth, 106, 1881, paper, 

 650, cloth, 432; 1882, paper, 1,077, cloth, 97; 1883, paper, 296, 

 cloth 64; 1884, paper, 383, cloth, 758; 1885, paper, 1,575, cloth, 

 3; 1886, paper, 460; 1887, 200. 



There are some few other odds and ends hardly worth caring 

 for; also some twine and wrapping paper left. 



E. A. CUZNER, 



Librarian. 



The following from Mr. Gibbs, formerly secretary of the So- 

 ciety, was received and placed on file: 



NOTES FEOM SOUTH DAKOTA. 



By Oliver Gibbs Jr., Ramsey, Dak. 

 S. Z>. Hillman, Secretary, etc.: 



As it is uncertain whether I can fttend your annual meeting 

 this year, I will make a few notes as you requested and send 

 them in. 



Prof. Keffer, from his observations at the Brookings agricul- 

 tural college, and at the Dakota horticultural meetings, and from 

 his travels and extensive correspondence, will be likely to give 

 the general news of horticulture in the territory.* I will there- 

 fore limit my notes mostly to my own personal work and to 

 what I have learned from my neighbors' gardens. 



* Prof. Keffer writes that owing to a press of duties he can not furnish the 

 article promised. — Sec'y. 



