TWENTY-SIXTH SESSION. 7 
Sept. 1. By cash paid Lawrence & Van Buren Co., printing $9 75 
Sept. 1. By cash paid W. A. Taylor, 2 years’ salary. 100 00 
Sept. 1. By cash paid W. A. Taylor, printing and postage 50 76 
Sept. 1. By cash paid L. It. Taft, printing and postage 15 00 
Total amount of payments $655 55 
Balance on hand 636 93 
$1,292 48 
ASSETS. 
Bonds of C., B. & Q. R. R. at cost $4,910 43 
Accrued interest on bonds. 66 67 
Cash on hand 636 93 
$5,614 03 
L. R. TAFT, 
Treasurer. 
On motion of Mr. C. J. Monroe, the Treasurer’s account was referred to an 
auditing committee of three, to be appointed by the Chair. 
Subsequently Messrs. W. G. Vincenheller, Arkansas; F. M. Webster, Ohio, 
and R. M. Kellogg, Michigan were constituted the committee. 
President Watrous called ex-President Berckmans to the chair and deliv- 
ered his annual address. 
PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS. 
BY CHARLES L. WATROUS, DES MOINES, IOWA. 
Gentlemen of the American Pomological Society: 
This day we stand upon the threshold of the second half century of the 
labor of the most ’honorable and useful pomological organization known to 
history. We look with confident eyes into the future, secure in the knowledge 
that if we and those who are to come after us shall be as wise and patriotic 
in our work as have been our fellow workers, now happily mustered out and 
gone over the deep river, the century’s work of this Society will have brought 
such good into the lives of so many people that its name will go down in 
history followed with blessings, and a man’s children shall treasure the 
record of his membership, as an honor. 
It is well known that the people of no other nation are so universally sup- 
plied with fruits as ours are, not as an occasional luxury, but as an integral, 
necessary part of our daily food, from the beginning to the ending of the 
year. I think the history of the world shows that much of the lives of men 
depends upon the food they eat and that as their bodies are healthfully nour- 
ished, so do their hearts and their brains work strongly and rightly. 
Since our last meeting, two years ago, at Columbus, there has happened to 
us and to our country, that which rightfully makes every American stand 
a little taller; and as he looks toward the rest of the world, it is with a 
more confident eye and a prouder gladness, in his right of American citizen- 
ship. 
