3<"> State Horticultural Society. 



This original statement is in the possession of the Board, those 

 members of the Board having signed it having erased their names 

 after discovering its full purport, thereby annulling the whole thing, 

 and consequently it never became a signed instrument. We have 

 understood that some who claimed to have a copy of the original 

 would publish it. However, we do not think any one would resort 

 to demagogery like this, even for advertising purposes, as in fact, 

 the copy was never signed at all and would be a forgery, as the 

 original never became an instrument in fact. George T. Tippin, in 

 American Truck Farmer. 



REPORT OF SPECIAL FINANCE COMMITTEE. 



Pres. Whitten. In the absence of Mr. Greensfelder, chairman 

 of the Special Committee on Finance, who was unable to be present 

 on account of a meeting of the State Board of Agriculture, I will 

 comply with his request and read the report which I have received 

 from him. Other members of the committee are also unavoidably 

 absent. 



Columbia, Mo., Dec. 7, 1904. 



Professor J. C. Whitten, Esq., Pres. Mo. Horticultural Society, Co- 

 lumbia, Mo. : 



Dear Sir Have received this day a letter from Mr. Geo. B. Ellis, 

 Secretary of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture, notifying me 

 that the President of the Board had appointed me a member of the 

 auditing committee and to make a report at the next annual meeting 

 of the Board to be held Dec. 20, 1904. 



This will prevent me from being present at the meeting of the 

 Horticultural Society at Neosho, which is to be held on the same day, 

 I therefore hand you the report of the committee, appointed by you 

 to examine into the expenditure of a certain fund of your Society, 

 which I had prepared to read at the Society meeting. Sorry I am 

 of the conflict of meetings, as I should have been glad to be with you. 



Yours truly, 



M. B. GREENSFELDER. 



Clayton, September 14, 1904. 



Professor J. C. Whitten, President of the Horticultural Society of 

 Missouri : 

 Dear Sir On August 3ist, 1904, you appointed as a committee 



