H OCTOBBB 19, 1914k 



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HAIL FELLOWS WELL MET 



DISECTOBS' ANNUAL SESSION. 



Not Superstitious. 



Insurance being an exact, mathemat- 

 ical matter in which superstition has 

 no part, the annual meeting of the 

 directors of the Florists' Hail Associa- 

 tion, insuring 44,000,000 feet of green- 

 house glass, was held on call at Hotel 

 La Salle, Chicago, Friday, October 13. 



At the time of the annual meeting of 

 the insured, at Houston, during the 

 S. A. F. convention, there was so 

 small an attendance of directors that 

 their meeting was postponed to a more 

 propitiotiB date. The result was an 

 almost full attendance. 



Those Present. 



President E, G. Hill, of Richmond, 

 Ind., presided, the following officers 

 and directors being in attendance: 

 J. F. Ammann, Edwardsville, 111.; John 

 Or. Esler, Saddle River, N. J.; Anders 

 Rasmussen, New Albany, Ind. ; Charles 

 P. Mueller, Wichita, Kan.; J. A. Val- 

 entine, Denver, Colo.; Samuel Murray, 

 Kansas City; C. L. Washburn, Chi- 

 cago; Fred Burki, Gibsonia, Pa. 



The only directors absent were J. J. 

 Hess, of Omaha, who was en route to 

 the National Flower Show committee 

 meeting at St. iLouis, and Hon. Joseph 

 Heacock, who is in the midst of a con- 

 gressional campaign and was therefore 

 unable to attend. Mr. Hess, however, 

 conferred with the directors the even- 

 ing previous to the meeting, so that 

 they had the benefit of his valued coun- 

 sel. 



Of^cers Be-elected. 



Officers were re-elected, as follows: 



President — E. G. Hill, Richmond, Ind. 



Vice-president — J. F. Ammann, Ed- 

 wardsville, HI. 



Treasurer — Joseph Heacock, Wyn- 

 cote. Pa. 



Secretary — John G. Esler, Saddle 

 River, N. J. 



It was ordered that the twenty-ninth 

 assessment, to be levied March 1, 1917, 

 shall be at the rate of 20 cents per hun- 



dred square feet on single strength, 

 and 8 cents per hundred square feet on 

 double strength glass, the increase over 

 the last assessment being occasioned by 

 the exceedingly heavy hail losses dur- 

 ing the last season. 



The charter of the association, which 

 will have been in practical and suc- 

 cessful operation for thirty years June 

 1, 1917, will be renewed under an en- 

 abling act of the New Jersey legisla- 

 ture this winter and Secretary Esler 

 was authorized to take the necessary 

 steps to that end. 



The secretary also was authorized to 

 file the list of Hail Association mem- 

 bers with the secretary of the S. A. F. 

 for the purpose of securing representa- 

 tion on the S. A. F. board of directors 

 under the affiliation plan. President E. 

 G. Hill to be certified as the repre- 



sentative of the Florists' Hail Asso- f^.- 

 ciation. 



By-Laws to be Revised. 



The directors held two sessions of 

 some length and a large part of the 

 day was given over to the discussion 

 of changes in the by-laws, which, it is , 

 believed, will render the conduct of the 

 affairs of the association still more effi- 

 cient and still further increase the 

 membership, which has been progress- 

 ing steadily all the time. In order to 

 put the proposed amendments into the 

 best legal form so as to clearly express 

 their intent and meaning, J. A. Valen- 

 tine, of Denver, whose ability in this 

 regard is well known, was appointed 

 a committee of one to draft the amend- 

 ments in accordance with the trend of 

 the discussion and report back to the 

 president of the board of directors for 

 eventual submission to the vote of the 

 stockholders. These new amendments 

 are expected to establish a fiscal jeif, 

 under which arrangement the annual 

 meetings of the association will be held 

 at the call of the president after such 

 fiscal year is concluded, at such time 

 and place as he may designate. 



WORK OF TWO BROTHERS 



THE GXTLLETT OBEENHOUSES. 



A Modem Cut Flower Bange. 



Most of the large greenhouse estab- 

 lishments are the result of many years 

 of building and it is not often that 

 one has the opportunity to visit a big 

 modern range that has been reared out 

 of the cornfields in two short years. 



Starting their new range in the late 

 fall of 1914, Gullett & Sons, of Lincoln, 

 111., erected two steel-frame houses, 

 each 60x500. These are houses 1 and 

 2, at the south side of the range, as 

 seen in the sketch which is shown on 

 page 18. Each house contains two 

 equal sections. In the sketch the en- 

 circled figure in the center of each 

 house is the house number; the other 

 figures are the section numbers. 



During the same winter the firm add- 

 ed one house 60x500. In the spring 



and summer of 1915 three more houses 

 60x500 were added, and two propagat- 

 ing houses 27x415. Operations were 

 suspended for the winter of 1915, but 

 early this summer work was started on 

 two growing houses 30x417 and two 60x 

 500. 



And the expansion of the range will 

 not end with the completion of the 

 even dozen bouses. For the American 

 Greenhouse Manufacturing Co., now at 

 work on house 12, has already received 

 an order for houses 13 and 14, each to 

 be 60x500, and both to be finished by 

 March. 



Two large service buildings have 

 been erected, at the east end of houses 

 7 to 10. One is 55x110, of frame con- 

 struction, and a new one, just com- 

 pleted, is 60x100, of tile and steel. 



Boiler House and Packing Boom. 



Two tall chimneys are a landmark 



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The New Establishment of GuUett & Sons, Lincoln, HL, Before HouKt 9 to \2 Wtre Started, r^ 



