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ceives $50, be amended so that his animal compensation will 

 be $100. I make this motion for the reason that the business 

 of the Association has increased so tremendously in the last 

 year or two that the secretary really devotes a great deal of 

 his time to it and receives practically no adequate compen- 

 sation. The $100 isn't enough, but at the present time, with 

 our increased membership and increasing activity, certainly 

 the secretary ought to get more nearly fair compensation 

 for his work. I make this motion for that reason. 



PROFESSOR SEARS. You have all heard Mr. Wheel- 

 er's motion, that at the regular annual meeting of the Asso- 

 ciation at Worcester it shall be proposed to raise the salary 

 of the secretary from $50 to $100 per year. If put in that 

 way it simply means that the matter will be brought up at 

 Worcester? 



MR. WHEELER. Exactly. 



(Motion seconded and unanimously carried.) 



MR. SEVEY. I have often asked myself and one or two 

 others why it is that we have no State appropriation. Other 

 horticultural societies of New England and the west, all over 

 the country, have anywhere from $500 to $5,000 a year, but 

 not one single penny does the great and glorious state of 

 Massachjisetts give our horticultural interests to my knowl- 

 edge. It seems to me that our officers might be delegated to 

 investigate this matter. Certainly it is worth while for the 

 state to back up is horticultural interests with appropria- 

 tions as much as in other line of agricultural activity. 



PRESIDENT FROST. That was taken up during the 

 past year, and there are reasons why we couldn't have any 

 money from the state, because we are not incorporated, and 

 also because the state money goes through the State Board 

 of Agriculture. We appointed last year a committee on leg- 

 islation to see if they could get aid from the state, and found 

 that the State Board of Agriculture had asked for a certain 

 amount of money for the encouragement of fruit growing. 

 We also found that if we would work with the State Board, 

 and the State Board secured its appropriation, we would be 



