STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 71 



Cr. 



By appropriations as follows: 

 1883. 



Jan. 19, For incideutal exenses ..$10.00 



Jan. 19, For delegate to Wisconsin horticultural society.... 20.00 



June 28, For incidental expenses . • 25 . 00 



June 28, For postage on reports 75.00 



Balance due secretary 69.96 



1199.96 $199.96 



Bill of items included herewith and vouchers for information of 

 the Finance Committee. 



Many other matters of interest in the Secretary's work during 

 the past year will come before the Society in other parts of the 

 program and need not be introduced here, as the report is already 

 somewhat lengthy. 



I will say however in closing that the manuscript for the report 

 of 1884, is all ready for the printers up to this date, and I am inform- 

 ed by our polite and wide-awake State Printers, Johnson, Smith & 

 Harrison, of Minneapolis, that they are ready for it any time, and, 

 if immediately supplied with the copy, they can in all probability 

 do for us this year what we have always wanted heretofore, but 

 could never quite accomplish — have the Report out in time for our 

 readers to look it over before the spring planting. 



In the off years of legislative sessions, like this year, 1884, when 

 State printing is not so pressing, we may perhaps be always able 

 to get our publication early in the spring. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



OLIVER GIBBS, Jr., Secretary. 



Lake City, Jan. 5, 1884. 



