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Ill other words, when their time is up, they will 

 be notified and given a chance to renew. Now these 

 amendments to the Constitution and to the By-Laws 

 require a two-thirds vote of the members present in order to 

 pass, and your committee hopes they will be adopted. In 

 addition to those the committee ofifer the following resolution : 

 ^'Resolved, that each member of the Society shall constitute 

 himself a committee to procure at least one new member from 

 among the residents of the state interested in horticultural 

 pursuits, and induce the member to be present at our next 

 annual meeting." The reason for putting in this is that we 

 are not going to let you get out of it by putting in your wife 

 or boy, but we want you to go and stir up somebody else, and 

 make him come out to the meetings, and induce him to put 

 his dollar in and become a member of the Society. This will be 

 good missionary work for all of us. Mr. President, I move 

 the passage of these amendments and of the resolution. 



Mr. Stancliff Hale : I would like to say that we ac- 

 tually pay back to every member of. this Society who gets the 

 report, 91 cents, for that is what it costs. Now, we have but 

 nine cents left from membership fee to pay all of the other 

 expenses of the Society's work. That is why we must all 

 pay our dollar, and we must not expect to receive the Report 

 unless we do. 



Secretary Miles: I want to explain that it costs about 

 91 cents during the year to carry a member on our books, and 

 the expense includes not only furnishing him the annual re-, 

 port, but notifying him of the meetings, the postage and extra 

 printing necessary in notifying him if he fails to renew his 

 membership. We have been spending considerable in that way. 

 but personally, I don't think it has been a loss. Now we have 

 carried on our books for two years every one who joined the 

 Society, regardless of whether he renewed his membership 

 promptly or not. The change proposed by the committee will 

 save carrying members more than one year and will save us 

 money, 



A Member: It has been stated that it costs the Society 91 

 cents to carry a member. Well, now we propose a life 

 membership to cost ten dollars, and there is to be no more 



