374 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Mr. John A. Hoffman presented his resignation as member of the 

 executive committee. 



Mr. President and Members of the Executive Committee of the Michi- 

 gan State Agricultural Society: 



Gentlemen — I herewith present to you my resignation as a member 

 of the executive committee of this society to take eifect immediately. 



Respectful Iv, 



JOHN A. HOFFMAN. 

 The resignation was accepted. 



Mr. W. P. Custard presented his resignation as member of the execu- 

 tive committee. 



To the Executive Board of the Michigan State Agricultural Society: 



Gentlemen — I hand you my resignation as member of this board to 

 take effect at once. Please accept and oblige. 



Yours respectfullv, 



W. P. CUSTARD. 

 The resignation was accepted. 



Mr. Fifield made remarks as follows: 



Gentlemen — I have been with the Michigan State Agricultural So- 

 ciety for twenty years and one year as president. I have labored hard 

 to make the society a success and must admit that at times we have 

 been very blue and thought that this society would not exist. 



Thanking you gentlemen for the courtesy you have given me for the 

 past twenty years, I retire, turning this office over with thanks to the 

 entire committee. 



On motion, adjourned, sine die. 



The officers elect for 1906 met at the Griswold House, Detroit, on 

 Wednesday, January 10th, at 10 o'clock p. m. 



Roll called and the following ansAvered to their names: Messrs. 

 Postal, Baldwin, Butterfield, McKay, Stevenson, Boyden, Dawson, Rice, 

 Snell, Kelly, Winans, Galbraith, Powell, Doherty, Terney, Ransford, 

 Aitken, Taft, Collier, Hall, Rich, Anderson, Fifield. Absent — Horton, 

 Palmer, Howland. 



President Postal delivered his address as follows: 



president's address. 



Gentlemen — T realize that I have been greatly honored in being elected 

 president of the State Agricultural Society of the State of Michigan, 

 and I desire at this time, upon assuming the duties of the office, to 

 earnestly assure you and the people of the State of Michigan that my 

 best time and efforts Avill be always at the disposal of this society, to 

 upbuild it and make it ever more and more important along the lines 

 for which it was founded, namely : A fair for the agricultural inter- 

 ests of the State. I believe that there are in the minds of certain 

 friends of this society some misgivings as to the course its officers will 

 follow now that the fair is perm9,nently located at Detroit. For the 



