STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 99 



Mr. Harris stated that the delegates in attendance at the meet- 

 ing of the Wisconsin Horticultural Society would be prepared 

 to report at the proper time. He understood that an arrange 

 ment was made some two years ago providing for an exchange 

 of reports with the societies in that state and Iowa. He inquired 

 if any present had received such reports. 



Mr. Dartt. I think I have received the Iowa report. 



President Smith. Personally I should like to have cojiies of 

 those reports; a great many of our members would like them. 

 Think fifty copies was the number agreed uj)on. 



Mr. Harris. I don't remember the number. The Wisconsin 

 society do not get as many copies from the State as we do, but I 

 think they agreed to send us twenty copies if they could do so. 



Mr. Peterson. I received one of them. 



Mr. Tuttle. The understanding was that we would exchange 

 reports with Iowa and Minnesota this last year. Our report is 

 embodied in the State Agricultural Society's report and some 

 ten thousand copies of that were i^rinted, being a volume of some 

 eight hundred pages. I suppose, if they have none of the small 

 reports to spare, they could furnish the other which embodies 

 the same report. 



Mr. Whipple. I would inquire if anybody knows how many 

 of our reports have been sent out. 



President Smith. Our secretary's report does not show the 

 number, and we have nothing here that shows our membership 

 except the printed reports. 



Mr. Smith moved that the secretary be requested to ascertain 

 what could be done towards an exchange of reports with other 

 state societies, and to get as many copies for distribution among 

 members as could be obtained consistently. 



Mr. Harris. Iowa and Michigan only agreed to send enough 

 to supply the officers and the executive committee. For two years 

 past I have received none from Michigan and none from Iowa only 

 by sending for a copy. Our reports have gone away by the 

 hundreds. I hope some record may be kept of their distribution 

 in future. 



President Smith. I ordered one hundred coijies from the State 

 printer and fifty of those went to the German Horticultural 

 Society here, and what are left I will bring up. 



Mr. Harris. The State Agricultural Society are entitled to 

 one hundred copies, as well as members of the legislature each a 

 copy, but if these are provided it will bankrupt the society of 



