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a law providing for two hundred dollars bounty for the detection 

 of horse thieves. The thief was captured that took the mules, 

 and the man that cai)tured him applied for the bounty, which 

 was refused, and he carried it to the supreme court, which has 

 just decided against him that mules are not horses. Now, you 

 are trying to strike out a variety of apples entirely and offering 

 premiums on the new seedlings. If you find an apple that is 

 the least crab, you strike it from the list; and so I think you 

 will have to strike out nearly all of your seedlings. 



President Smith. We have not struck out the crab apples. 



Mr. Smith. They simply strike out the one i^remium on the 

 largest collection of crabs in order to put it on the other pre- 

 miums. 



Mr. Sias. I wish to say that our secretary of the Olmsted 

 County Horticultural Society made us a good report last year, 

 and it was handed to the secretary of this society and a vote 

 taken to have it filed for publication with the transactions of the 

 society, but whether it was lost or suppressed I don't know; 

 and I wish our new secretary, whoever he may be, may be in- 

 structed to try and find that report and have it inserted in our 

 next report. 



Mr. Smith. We have already voted to do that. 



ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OLMSTED COUNTY 

 HOETICULTUEAL SOCIETY, 1884. 



ADDRESS OF J. S. HARRIS, OF LA CRESCENT — ELECTION OF 



OFFICERS, ETC. 



\_From the Rochester Post of Jan. 4, 1884.] 



The annual meeting of the Olmsted County Horticultural So- 

 ciety met at Good Templars Hall on Saturday afternoon of last 

 week, Vice President Sias in the chair. But a very few mem 

 bers were present to listen to the very interesting and instruc- 

 tive address by Mr. J. S. Harris, president of the State Horti- 

 cultural Society, consequently we publish it in full. The speaker 

 said: 



Mr. President and Gentlemen: 



It is with pleasure that I meet with you in this your thriv- 

 ing city, which is noted far and near for beauty of situation 



