480 BOARD OF AGKICULTURE. 



Mr. Knox: I buy a preparation from the Creamery Package Com- 

 pany. It is called . 



Professor Decker: 'Jj^mt is a phosphate, 1 think. 



Mr. Knox: That is a preparation for cleaning and purifying tinware. 



Professor Decker: That is phosphate. 



Mr. Knox: I don't remember just the name. 



Mr. Shugart: I would suggest that the Committee on Nomination of 

 Officers meet after the adjournment. 



President: The Committee on Nominations will meet after the ad- 

 journment, and 1 think it would be a good idea for the Committee on 

 Resolutions to meet. Nothing has beeu said yet about a Committee on 

 Legislation further than what I mentioned this morning. 



Mr. Newsom: I move that the Chairman be authorized to appoint a 

 committee of three as a Legislative Committee. 



Motion seconded and carried. 



President: I will name the committee later. 



Adjourned until 7:30 p. m. 



EVENING SESSION. 



December 18, 1901, 7:30 p. m. 



Piano duet. 



The President: The first thing on the program this evening will be 

 "The Germ Theory of Disease," by Professor Dennis, of Earlham College. 



THE GERM THEORY OF DISEASE. 



PROFESSOR D. W. DENNIS, EARLHAM COLLEGE. 



Less than half a century ago we were wholly ignorant of the cause 

 of most diseases; we did not know the cause of the fermentation of milk 

 or cider or anything else. We did not know what produces decay. On 

 the day Liebig took his doctoi-'s degree at Erlangen, Pasteur was born. 

 Between these men was destined to occur the first great battle of :i 



