STATE HORTICULTUKAL 80CTIETY. 135 



EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING 



MINNESOTA AMBER CANE ASSOCIATION. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 

 Second Day — Wednesday, Jan. 21, 1885. 



The afternoon session of Wednesday was set apart by pre- 

 vious arrangement for the transaction of business in connection 

 with the Amber cane industry. 



At 2 o'clock p. M. the convention was called to order by Capt. 

 Russell Blakeley, president of the Minnesota Amber Cane Asso- 

 ciation, who stated that many of the members of the association 

 were in New Orleans in attendance upon the World's Industrial 

 and Cotton Centennial Exposition, now in session there, which 

 would account for the limited attendance here this afternoon, 

 and welcomed the large audience present to this meeting, and 

 invited them to participate in its deliberations and discussions. 



Prof. E. D. Porter, secretary of the association, stated that as 

 the proceedings of the last meeting were all published in the 

 daily press, he had not brought with him the records of daily 

 meetings for last year, supposing they were completed with the 

 close of the annual meeting. He would present to the meeting 

 his financial report as secretary and treasurer for the past year : 



