74 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



ADDEESS. 



PRESIDENT TAYLOR'S ADDRESS— WINTER MEETING. 



Members of the Nebraska Horticultural Society, Ladies and Gen- 

 tlemen : In presenting to you this review of the state of our Society 

 and of horticultural interests in the state, I desire first to thank the 

 members of the Society for their hearty co-operation with the officers 

 in forwarding the interests of the Society. Whenever we have 

 thought that the Society needed any changes made in its manner of 

 doing business, we have only had to mention the fact, and the Society 

 has acceded to our requests. 



When the present officers took their positions it was found that 

 while there was money in the treasury, yet the amount was each year 

 growing less, so that unless a halt was called the surplus in the treas- 

 ury would all be absorbed in about four years. It seemed to me that 

 this was bad management, and that the finances should be so handled 

 that we would always keep within each year's receipts, so that as we 

 came to the establishing of experiment stations, and the expenditure 

 of money for other purposes for the advancement of horticulture, we 

 should have something to draw from. 



With this end in view it was recommended to the Society that the 

 salaries of the officers be cut down to keep the expenditures within 

 the appropriation. The Secretary's office was of course the heaviest 

 drain on the treasury, since the Secretary is the only salaried officer. 

 It seemed best to adopt a scale of salaries which would be absolute, 

 so that the claim that any officers were causing unnecessary expendi- 

 tures or running their offices on too liberal a plan could not be made. 

 For that reason, the following was adopted as the maximum pay of 

 the officers and superintendents : 



Secretary, $500, from which he must pay his own assistants and 

 expenses, except for stationery and postage. 



