THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
695 
Your 
to June 
June 10, 
30, 
July 2, 
Dec. 31, 
Jan. 18, 
Mar. 3, 
May 25, 
June 1, 
June 12, 
June 19, 
July 3, 
July 17, 
Aug. 9, 
Sept. 4, 
Sept. 23, 
Dec. 11, 
Jan. 11, 
Jan. 12, 
Jan. 20, 
Feb. 4, 
Feb. 25, 
May 17, 
May 19, 
May 26, 
May 30, 
TREASURER’S REPORT 
Treasurer submits his annual report from June 10, 1909, 
4, 1910. 
RECEIPTS 
To cash on hand. 
$3,853.79 
Interest, bank account. 
... $32.62 
Geo. C. Seager. 
. . . . 290.00 
Interest, bank account. 
53.37 
B. E. Fields . 
25.55 
W. C. Reed . 
10.00 
John Hall, Sec. 
36.00 
John Hall, Sec. 
. . . . 2340.30 
$2787.84 
$6641.63 
DISBURSEMENTS 
’09 American Printing Co., Exhibit 
Comm. 7.75 
McGuire & Wood, Montana Laws 25.00 
Abner Hoopes, Tariff Comm, to 
Wash., D. C. 42.50 
Irving Rousg, Tariff Comm, to 
Wash., D C. 31.80 
Geo. C. Seager, salary, stamps, 
etc. 515.37 
Bastian Bros. Co., Badges . 25.56 
Union & Advertiser Co., Badge 
Book. 342.00 
Union & Advertiser Co., Letter 
heads, etc. 75.54 
W. H. Moon, Tariff Comm, to 
Wash., D. C. 31.00 
C. L. Yates, salary and postage . 50.60 
L. H. Bailey, exp. to Convention 7.56 
T. B. Meehan, Exhibit Committee 4.68 
Union & Advertiser Co. folders, 
etc. 29.00 
J. M. Pitkin, Tariff Comm, to 
Wash., D. C. 39.40 
Union & Advertiser Co., return 
postals. 14.50 
Emma Jacobson, reporting con¬ 
vention . 88.78 
W. P. Stai'k, exp. Transportation 
meeting . 56.80 
B. E. Fields, printing 1000 S. D. 
laws . 25.55 
Union & Advertiser Co., printing 162.81 
McGuire & Wood. 20.00 
’10 John Hall, Sec., stationery, etc. 23.24 
M. E. Wolff Co., Bond for Treas¬ 
urer . 18.75 
Wm. Pitkin and Mr. Rouse to 
Boston . 64.70 
J.B. Morey. 12.05 
W. C. Reed, Committee Wash¬ 
ington . 119.40 
Mr. Sizemore, exp. San Antonio. 97.00 
W. P. Stark, exp. Inspection Bill, 
Wash., D C. 120.13 
Wm. Pitkin, exp. Insjjection Bill, 
Wash., D. C. 97.00 
J. H. Dayton, exp. Inspection 
Bill, Wash., D. C. 61.75 
John Hall, Sec., stamps, envelopes, 
etc. 68.48 
Union & Advertiser Co., Printing 36.00 
G. L. Holsinger, Wash, D. C., acc. 
House Bill. 103.75 
Wm. Pitkin to G. L. Johnson, 
telegrams, etc. 30.68 
Abner Hoopes, exp. Wash., D.C., 
acc. House Bill. $39.00 
$2488.03 
June 4, Cash to balance. $4153.60 $6641.63 
All of which is respectfully submitted. 
C. L. Yates, Treasurer. 
REPORT OF JOHN HALL, SECRETARY 
1909-1910 
RECEIPTS 
1909 
Nov. 11 —In Bank to account of Geo. C. Seager, Sec’y $ 26.75 
1910 
Memberships. 1,695.00 
Advertisements in Badge Book. 596.60 
Extra Badges and Badge Books. 17.50 
Exchange remitted by Members. 3.95 
Sales of Codes . .50 
$2,340.30 
Agriculture in New York. Bulletin No. 9, New York State 
Department of Agriculture. 
One of the most suggestive publications in the way of a statistical 
document which has come to our table for some time is the one just 
noted. It has been issued under the hand of the Commissioner of 
Agriculture, who says in his introduction that “the farms of New 
York in the last census year represented a total investment in land, 
buildings and machinery of more than one billion dollars. The 
value of the annual output of these farms was nearly one-quarter of 
one billion dollars. More than two million people constitute the 
rural population of the State, and nearly four hundred thousand of 
these are actually engaged in agricultural pursuits.” 
The bulletin is an extract from the statistical reports of the 
United States Government, showing in graphic form the agricul¬ 
tural products of the State, usually given in unit areas in which the 
square mile is used. Colored charts employed to designate the 
different degrees of intensity with which the industry is prosecuted, 
gives great clearness to the results depicted. The bulletin should be 
in the hands of all persons interested in educational matters, and will 
be of particular and special value to farmers’ institute speakers and 
experiment station officers. 
HOW CHEMISTRY ENRICHES THE SOIL 
It was chemistry that made agriculture a science. The great 
German chemist Liebig laid the first foundations of that science 
when, only a half century ago, he discovered the principles by which 
the fertility of the soil can constantly be restored to it through the 
use of proper fertilizers. 
Since Liebig’s time the world has made great use of the natural 
beds of sodium nitrate which are sound in Chile. The nitrogen of 
sodium nitrate furnishes an element which is necessary to plant life. 
But the sodium nitrate beds of Chile will some day be exhausted; 
and chemistry has already furnished an artificial substitute. At 
Notodden, in Norway, they are taking nitrogen directly out of the 
air and using it in the manufacture of a nitrate which is just as good 
a fertilizer as the natural nitrate deposits of Chile. 
PURE FOOD AND BENZOATE OF SODA 
It does not appear that North Dakota intends to be governed by 
the rulings of the Federal Referee Board in regard to the use of 
benzoate of soda. This Board ruled that it was non-injurious in 
opposition to the opinion of Dr. Wiley. The food commissioner of 
North Dakota holds that the state will follow her own judgment in 
this matter and will not be guided by federal action. Benzoate of 
soda will not be permitted except in one or two instances, and then 
only under restrictions. 
