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REPORTS STORED AT PILLSBURY HALL, STATE UNIVERSITY, 



MINNEAPOLIS. 



E. A. CUZNER, ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN. 

 (This report does not iaclude the " Keserve." See report of 1892, page 121.) 



Reports of 1876, 255 paper bound; 1877, 29 paper bound; 1881, 875 paper 

 bound; 1882, 114 cloth bound and 503 paper bound; 1883, 350 cloth bound 

 and 231 paper bound; 1884, 268 paper bound; 1885, 425 paper bound; 1886, 

 189 paper bound; 1887, 43 paper bound; 1888, 42 paper bound; 1889, 125 

 paper bound; 1890, 156 paper bound; 1891, 216 cloth, 50 paper; 1892, 572 

 cloth, 959 paper covers. The reserve has been drawn upon three times, 

 hut not touching 1879. 



There have been sent out from the Pillsbury Hall the past year 111 

 packages, or 1444 copies of the Minnesota State Horticultural reports. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON LIBRARY. 



J. S. HARRIS, L,A CRESCENT. 



During the year 1892 1 have secured the following additions to the 

 library of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society, and have delivered 

 the same at the society's office on Nicollet ave., Minneapolis: 

 LOne copy Report of American Pomological Society, 1891, paper; 1 copy 

 Report Secretary of Agriculture, 1891, cloth; 1 copy Report Bureau Animal 

 Industry, 1890, cloth; 1 copy Report Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, 



1891, cloth; 1 copy Report Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, 1892, 

 cloth; 1 copy Report Department Agriculture Wisconsin Experimental 

 Station, 1891, paper; 1 copy Report Agriculture of South America, (U. S. 

 Department Agriculture, 1891), paper; 1 copy Report Co-operative Credit 

 Associations of Certain European nations, (U.S. Department Agriculture), 



1892, paper; 2 copies Report Food Adulteration, Part 6 and 7, U. S. De- 

 partment Agriculture, 1892, paper; 1 copy Farmers' Bulletin No. 7, Spray- 

 ing Fruits, paper; 1 copy Flax Culture for Fiber, paper; 1 copy Secretary of 

 Agriculture, 1892, paper; 1 copy Experiments with Sugar Beets, 1891, 

 paper; 1 copy Experiments with Sorghum, 1891, paper; 1 copy Damage by 

 Destructive Locusts, 1891, paper; 1 copy Inoculation to Prevent Hog 

 Cholera, 1892; 1 copy Wages of Farm Labor 1886-1892; 1 copy Report of 

 Statistics, July and August, 1892; 1 copy Report of Statistics, September 

 and October, 1892; 10 monthly reports Condition of Crops, 1892; 1 copy Ex- 

 periments in Treatment of Plant Diseases; 1 copy U. S. Department Agri- 

 cultural Reports, Crops of the Year, 1891; 1 copy Wisconsin Farmers' -In- 

 stitute Bulletin, 1892. 



Your committee would recommend that the books in the library 

 be catalogued as soon as practicable, and that in the distribution of the 

 society's published transactions, 200 or more copies of all back reports be 

 held back for library exchanges and a bonus to those who may hereafter 

 become life members of the society. 



