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The premium list Avas again taken up, and after much discussion and 

 several amendments, was finally adopted, at half-past 11 A. M. 



On motion of Mr. Butterfield, 



Resolved, That each viewing committee consist of five members, and 

 that three shall constitute a quorum. 



The committee to whom was referred the memorial of Mr. E. C. 

 Roberts, of Salem, respecting the potato rot, its cauee and cure, report, 

 that Mr. Roberts appeared before your committee and made a full state- 

 ment of the result of his experiments during the last five years,. 

 by which he claims to have discovered a radical cure for the blight 

 in that vegetable. He asserts that the potato has become diseased from 

 a neglect of its natural laws in saving the seed. The principle he 

 adopts is intended to purify and renovate the seed ; all of which, he 

 believes, he has successfully accomphshed ; of this fact your committee 

 are not fully satisfied, yet they would recommend that this subject be 

 treated of in a memorial to the next Legislature, and that we pray them 

 to oflfer a proper reward to Mr. Roberts, or any other person, who shall 

 be the actual discoverer of the cause, and a permanent cure of this dis- 

 ease, to be tested by future experiments and facts. Also that the Ex- 

 ecutive committee offer a premium to any one who will furnish satisfac- 

 tory evidence of an effectual cure for the potato disease. 



C. W. GREEN, 

 TITUS DORT, 

 IRA H. BUTTERFIELD. 



The above report, after a brief discussion, was, on motion, laid on the 

 table. 



On motion of Mr. Dort, 



Resolved, That the Secretary be instructed to deliver to each member 

 of the Executive Committee, one copy of the first volume of tlie Trans- 

 actions of the Indiana State Board of Agriculture. 



On motion of Mr. Moore, 



Resolved, That the resolution relative to distribution of report* of 

 Indiana State Board of Agriculture, be so amended as to provide for 

 distribution of one copy to each of the Ex-Presidents of this Society, 

 each of the organized County Agricultural Societies, each ex-member 

 of the Executive Committee of this Society, and each of the agricultural 



