136 ANNUAL REPORT. 



Report of the Secretary and Treasurer of the Minnesota Amber 

 Cane Association for the year ending Jan. 21, 1885 : 



Balance in the treasurer's hands Jan, 22, 1884 $80 90 



Amount received from membership fees, 1884 22 00 



Total $102 90 



Cash paid for printing notices and tickets $7 50 



*' '* record book 1 90 



" " stationery and postage 2 20 



11 60 



Balance $91 30 



It was moved that the report be received and adopted. Car- 

 ried. 



Capt. Blakeley. I would suggest that the officers for the en- 

 suing year might be elected at the present time. 



Mr. Ditus Day, of Farmington. There are so very few of the 

 members of the association present, many of them having gone 

 South, among them Mr. Kenney and others, I therefore move 

 that the present officers of the Amber Cane Association, in- 

 cluding the president, vice president, secretary and treasurer, 

 be continued for another year. 



The motion was amended to include the members of the exec- 

 utive committee and adopted. 



The officers thus elected are as follows : 



President — Capt. Russell Blakeley, St. Paul. 

 rice President — Diius Day, Farmington. 



Secretary and Treasurer — ^Prof. Edward D. Porter, Minneapolis. 

 Executive Committee — R. Blakeley, St. Paul; D. Day, Farmington; E. D. Por- 

 ter, Minneapolis; Seth H. Kenney, Morristown; .J. F. Porter, Red "Wing. 



Prof. Porter moved that a committee be appointed by the chair 

 on exhibits ol sugar and syrup, and Messrs. Ditus Day and 

 Wyman Elliot were appointed as such committee. Mr. Elliot 

 asked to be excused from serving, as his time was occupied oth- 

 erwise, and Mr. E. C. Judson was appointed in place of Mr. 

 Elliot. 



Capt. Blakeley. It is with pleasure that I am able to announce 

 the presence of the honorable ex-commissioner of agriculture of 

 the United States, who has been identified with the amber cane 



