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for he has said nearly everything I could say. I would add 

 your Membership Committee feels that the best and almost 

 the onl}- way we can get members is to advertise the work of 

 the Society. Alany of you very kindly furnished us, three years 

 ago, with a goodly list of names for the mailing list and I 

 think the Secretary has every year sent a copy of our program 

 to those addresses. I believe we have something like 28,000 

 farmers in the State and we have less than 600 members on 

 our list, so you see our work is only just begun. And the 

 reason we have not sent more advertising matter is because 

 we have not had more names. I would like to suggest to the 

 members that we would like every one of the 28,000 farm 

 owners to be on our list if we could get them, and I assure you 

 the Secretary will send each of them a program. I don't know 

 of anything more I can say. 



Secretary jMiles : Mr. President, I think Brother Gilbert 

 might have said a little more if he had not been quite so modest. 

 I want to make known to the Society at this time that our adver- 

 tising work has been materially helped by contributions from 

 Mr. Gilbert's pocketbook. I want to make a motion that the 

 thanks of the Society be extended to Mr. Gilbert. 



Mr. Hale : I would like to second that motion and amend 

 it by making Mr. Gilbert a life member of the ^Membership 

 Committee. 



President Gulley : You always want too much, Mr. Hale. 



Mr. Hale : The everlasting prodding ^Ir.. Gilbert has kept 

 up has resulted in nearly 600 members ; and, do you know, 

 Mr. President, that out of the forty-five States of the Union 

 only three States have societies with a larger membership? 



A Member : I second that amendment. 



Motion and amendment passed. 



Mr. Gilbert : I think this Society is too generous. You 

 are loading me with a "white elephant." I don't know how 

 I shall be able to carry it. 



President Gulley: We will now have the report of the 

 Committee on Exhibitions by Mr. Elbert ^Manchester. 



Mr. AIanchester : iMr. President, ladies and gentlemen. — It 

 seems to me it is hardly necessary that any report be made 

 after what you have heard from our Secretary. Our annual 

 exhibition was verv nearlv the same as the vear before, and 



