294 BOARD OF AGKICULTURF. 



TREASURER'S REPORT. 



January 4, 1905. 



General fund on hand at last meeting $47 1 1 



Paid Secretaiy Gartin to defray expenses of stenographer and 



printing report 47 11 



Balance prize fund on hand at last meeting 1 72 



1904 prize fund collected 548 60 



Total $550 32 



Paid premiums in special prize class at State Fair 490 00 



Balance unexpended prize fund ■ $60 32 



Respectfully submitted, ■ 



JAS. E. SILYEKTHOllN, Treasurer. 



On motion of Mr. Quick the report of the Treasurer was received andr 

 referred to the Auditing Committee. 



The session was then adjourned to 2 p. m. 



SECOND SESSIOX. 



The session was called to order at 2 p. m., Wednesday, January 4tl), 

 Vice-President Christian in the chair. 



The chairman appointed the following members to act as an Auditing 

 Committee: Walter Quick, John Robbins and T. J. Christain. 



ADDRESS BY W. E. HARRIS. 

 Senator W. E. Harris, of Kansas, addressed the cou\encion as toUows: 



I have no particular subject to speak upon, but expected to hear from 

 some of the Indiana breeders before I began my talk. I thought some- 

 thing would be brought out in the way of discussion. 



I feel it a very great honor to attend a meeting of the Short-horn 

 breeders of Indiana, because Indiana stands high in the breeding of short- 

 horn cattle. Indiana is the home of bluegras.s, the only state in the Union 

 that can claim bluegrass as indigenous to her soil, and cattle have fol- 

 lowed naturally. 



When I reached here this morning nud went into your agricultural 

 rooms one thing excited my regret at once— the lack of pictures of short- 



