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Payments. 



On account of premiums, |2,411 50 



Salary of Recording Secretary, 300 00 



Public Lecturer, 180 00 



Printing and binding, 187 39 



Expenses at Fair at Utica, 556 94 



To H. O'Reilly, 48 00 



Sundry incidental expenses, 92 23 



$3,776 06 



Invested in Albany city stock, 3,000 00 



" bond and mortgage, 2,000 00 



$8,776 06 



Leaving in the Treasury a balance of $546 21 



On motion of Mr. Comstock, a committee consisting of three from 

 each Senatorial District, was appointed to nominate officers for the 

 ensuing year, and to recommend to the Executive Committee a suitable 

 location for holding the next Cattle Show and Fair. 



On motion of Mr. L. F. Allen, a committee was appointed to 

 prepare business for the action of the meeting. The chair appointed 

 Messrs. Allen of Erie, Comstock of Albany, Pratt of Greene, 

 Walbridge of Tompkins, Lee of Monroe. 



Mr. Allen, from the business committee, reported the following 

 resolutions, which were adopted : 



Resolved, That a dairy committee of three persons be appointed by 

 the Executive Committee of the society, whose duty it shall be to 

 ascertain the actual product of the best cheese dairy of the State, that 

 the locality of such dairy be ascertained in latitude ; the composition of 

 the soil, as near as may be, where the dairy farm be situated ; the 

 kind of grass used for pasture and for hay ; the quantity, in pounds, of 

 milk per cow on the average and in the aggregate ; the quantity of 

 cheese to the hundred pounds of milk produced ; the gross quantity 

 for the season, of milk and cheese produced — the quality of the cheese 

 — ^the method of making it — the breed of cows composing the dairy, and 

 all such other details procured as shall determine the most profitable 

 mode of conducting the cheese dairy business ; and that one hundred 



