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Respectfully, 
BE. A. CUZNER. 
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION. 
J. H. HARRIS, CHAIRMAN. 
The time has now arrived when the demands upon this society are 
so great for information on horticultural topics that more money is 
needed to carry on the work successfully. The membership is now 
so large that it requires of the secretary the whole or the major part 
of his time; the publication of our reports in a monthly isssue also 
makes added duties for the secretary to preform. 
Special bulletins should frequently be prepared and sent out, when 
the circumstances demand, to inform and warn the people in cases 
like the great “model one hundred dollar orchard” swindle perpe- 
trated by an Illinois nursery company upon the farmers of the 
southern part of our state within thelast year. Now, therefore,your 
committee on legislation recommend: First,that this society ask 
the present legislature for an increase of the present appropriation 
to our State Minnesota Horticultural Society to a sum commensurate 
with the demands upon our society at the present time. We would 
name as such an amount $2,500 per annum. 
Second. The advisability of having the printing and binding of 
our horticultural reports done by the state printers is questionable, 
when upon investigation it can be demonstrated that the money ex- 
pended by the state,as now done, could be much more economically 
used if the society had full power to contract for this printing by 
advertisement and to be given to the lowest bidder. 
