226 ANNUAL REPORT. 



The State Horticultural Society will expect great things from 

 this University farm in its departments of pomology and gardening, 

 and it is safe to say that our members will always be found its cor- 

 dial co-workers and supporters in every step to advance the stand- 

 ard in these departments. I only hope the other branches of agri- 

 culture will organize as efficiently and co-operate with the 

 management of the the farm as thoroughly as we will. 



HALL FOB FUTURE MEETINGS. 



Prof. Porter. I wish to say a word further in regard to 

 the home of this society here at the Agricultural College. The 

 Board of Regents takes note of your largely increasing numbers, 

 and of the necessity for providing a hall large enough to accom- 

 modate not only this society, but all other assemblies or societies 

 that come here in the interest of agriculture; and it is hoped that 

 before your annual meeting occurs here again they may be able to 

 offer you a hall that will accommodate any audience you can brings 

 The appropriations have been made for all necessary buildings in 

 addition to what we have, but we have been and still are de- 

 layed in getting the money by the burning of the State buildings, 

 and the extraordinary drafts for funds to rebuild them. 



A. W. Sias here presented to Prof. Porter the relics of the 

 Rochester tornado, and Mr. Harris the specimens of Minnesota 

 woods on exhibition, for the benefit of the Agricultural College 

 Museum. 



The Secretary reported progress for himself and Prof. Porter as a 

 committe to select a device for a seal. Nothing had been evolved 

 that was quite good enough to express our high aims, ambitions 

 and hopes; the best they had to offer was the figure of a young 

 girl on tiptoe under an apple tree, one hand bending down a 

 branch, and the other grasping an apple. If this were engraved 

 with a motto, "Reaching for Fruit," in good Latin, it would at 

 at least be expressive. The picture was handed around for in- 

 spection, and taken under advisement for another year. Mean- 

 time sealed proposals for furnishing a better device are solicited. 



