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the use of the splendid new auditorium in the Education Build- 

 ing for holding the sessions of its seventy-third annual meeting. 



On motion the resolution was adopted. 



Mr. Pat.en : Resolved, That the members of the New York 

 State Agricultural Society hereby express their earnest appre- 

 ciation of the faithful and efficient services rendered by the retir- 

 ing officers of the society. 



On motion the resolution was adopted. 



Mr. Palen : Resolved, That the ISTew York State Agricultural 

 Society hereby tenders its thanks to our worthy Commissioner of 

 Agriculture for his valuable assistance in promoting the interest 

 and success of this meeting. 



On motion the resolution was adopted. 



Mr. Palen : Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be in- 

 cluded in the minutes of this meeting of the New York State 

 Agricultural Society. 



On motion the resolution was adopted. 



The President : We have adopted these resolutions seriatim. 



On motion the resolutions were adopted as a whole. 



Mr. Palen: Two references to the committee are returned 

 with explanations. One is a resolution relative to changing im- 

 mediately the parcel post law which has just gone into effect. 

 Your committee after some discussion thought it was a little 

 earlj^ to attempt this. So this resolution was not favorably 

 reported. 



Another matter was the report of the Committee on Agricul- 

 tural Resources. Some of vou heard the remarks made by one 

 member of this committee, Mr. Wadsworth, relative to the rather 

 mixed condition as to the hydra-headed character of the efforts 

 being made to promote the development of agricultural resources. 

 For that reason the committee thought best to bring the report 



