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committee would coincide with the suggestions of your President that 

 salaries of officers remain the same as at present. 



2. Regarding the question of traveling expenses for directors, your 

 committee feel that there are enough wide awake horticulturists in the 

 state who will be regardful of the interests of the Society, who will 

 do the work of that character, and will be willing to pay their trav- 

 eling expenses out of their own pockets, as heretofore, and that 

 moneys we have should be expended in other directions. 



3. As to the question of establishing experiment stations. This is a 

 kind of work which your committee feel to be of the highest importance, 

 and that it ought to be taken hold of in a practical way as rapidly as 

 the Society's funds may warrant. We have regretted that the state 

 farm was not able to do work of this character, in much the same 

 manner as they are doing it in other states. Inasmuch as this is not 

 being done to any great extent in horticulture, there is the more 

 urgent reason why the Society itself should have horticultural stations 

 in different portions of the state, to do the work that is being done in 

 Iowa by their scattered experiment stations. We think the sum 

 named by the President — $100 — is very much too small for a be- 

 ginning. 



In making the argument before the agricultural committee in the 

 last Legislature, your Legislative Committee urged that work of this 

 character should be planned by the Society for the future, and that if 

 funds were given for the proper management of the work, that it 

 would be extended in a brief time, and as rapidly as the funds given 

 would justify. 



After considerable discussion your committee is of the opinion that 

 we should have from five to ten stations to commence with, and these 

 to be under the control of the Executive Board of our Society with 

 so much of the sum of $500 as could in the judgment of the Board 

 be used advantageously. We would place this under the disposition 

 of the Executive Board as the most suitable for the intelligent and 

 economical handling of this money. 



4. Regarding the meetings of the Society, while there are special 

 reasons why the meeting should be moved from city to city, yet there 

 are other reasons which we think are competent for retaining the 

 meetings at Lincoln in the winter all the time. One reason we sug- 

 gest is that railroad travel is more convenient t \ the capital than in 



