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most other towns; hotel accommodations are good; very pleasant 

 rooms are always afforded us by the University, and we think possi- 

 bly more people on the whole will attend the winter meetings at the 

 capital than at any other town. The summer meetings, since the work 

 is largely out of doors, should be spent in the examination of crops, 

 fruits, and for social intercourse, should, as has been so wisely inaug- 

 urated, be moved from town to town as the Society may vote at its 

 meetings. 



5. In regard to the $2,000 which the President mentions as hav- 

 ing been paid to the Society and for which we feel grateful to the Leg- 

 islature, we think this should be regarded rather in the light of a 

 trust to be expended for future experimental work of the character 

 we have been discussing than that we should feel as though we ought 

 to expend it for premiums or in the ordinary running expenses of the 

 Society. We think that this fund was given to us largely with the 

 expectation that we would do work in opening experiment stations 

 and other work of like character which will tend to advance the hor- 

 ticultural interests of the state and advertise us more widely abroad. 



6. The Secretary's is an office of a peculiar character and if per 

 formed very acceptably the experience gained each year might make 

 it desirable to retain him in office from year to year. We notice that 

 states having found a good secretary retain him in office sometimes 

 many years. 



7. Regarding the time when your Secretary should issue his report 

 to the press. While there are many reasons for favoring the present 

 idea of having this given to the printer for publication after the win- 

 ter meeting, yet under the present circumstances, now that the work of 

 the winter meeting of 1890 only is before him, there would not be suf- 

 ficient for the Secretary to use to make up a report of 300 pages. If 

 the report be given to the printers by the middle of February and it 

 took as long to get at it as to get this report, and it probably would, 

 the report would be ready about the middle of May, which is a very 

 busy time of year. The general public, for whom these reports are 

 intended, would not be as much benefited by receiving the report in 

 the early summer as they would by getting it early in the winter, for 

 it is during the winter season that the general public will be benefited 

 by the perusal of our report. The committee would suggest that the 

 time for publication of the report be the same as now. 



