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ELECTION OF OFFICERS, ETC. 
COMMITTEE OF OBSERVATION. 
On motion of Mr. J. C. Plumb, the executive committee 
were instructed to appoint a committee of five members to visit 
and carefully observe the cultivation of fruit trees and plants, 
successful varieties, insects and diseases, soil and modes of cul¬ 
ture, and other items of interest to the fruit-growers which 
can be collected and presented for the benefit of the society 
and its interests. 
The meeting then adjourned to the following day. 
THIRD DAY. 
Thursday, February 11, 
9 o’clock A. M. 
The meeting was called to order by the president, and a 
prayer was offered by Mr. Kellogg. 
The committee on nominations made their report for officers 
for the ensuing year, and thereupon the society proceeded to 
ballot, which resulted as follows, viz: 
Presndent —Joseph Hobbins, M. D , Madison. 
Vice-President —A. G. Tuttle, Baraboo. 
Recording Secretary —0. S. Willey, Madison. 
Corresponding Secretary —F. S. Lawrence, Janesville. » 
Treasurer —George A. Mason, Madison. 
Executive Committee —J. 0. Piumb, Milton; J. S. Stickney, Wauwatosa, 
and Geo. P. Peffer, Pewaukee. 
Judge Knapp offered the following resolution, which was 
adopted: 
Resolved, That the executive committee be instructed to make provision for 
a series of meetings, to be held in the villages, towns and cities of the state, 
and to organize local societies therein as far as po sible. 
Mr* Kellogg offered the following, which was adopted: 
Resolved, That J. S. Stickney, J. 0. Plumb, and F. S. Lawrence, are hereby 
elected and appointed delegates to the Northern Illinois Horticultural Society, 
with power to appoint substitutes, and that we recommend said committee 
to take such fruit as is grown by members of our state society as they ple£^e, 
and which is now on exhibition. 
