514 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Eighteen heads of families have been added to our membership list. 

 Current expenses for the year, $334.82; on hand, ?132.81. 



At the December meeting the following officers were elected and com- 

 mittees appointed: 



J. C. Grossman, President; A. H. Bogue, Vice-President; Mrs. Lizzie 

 C. Royer, Secretary; Marion Garmire, Treasurer. 



Executive Committee— ,T. W. Mills, Leroy Esholman and Charles Smith. 



Program Committee— Mrs. J. W. Mills, Mrs. A. H. Bogue, Mrs. J. 

 Low, W. T. Clugston, E. C. Wemple and Charles Rowe. 



Music Committee— Misses Edith Mills, Edith Eshelman, Huldah Sears, 

 Veva Deal, Jessie Sherman, Bessie Appleman and Russell Smith. 



Exhibiting Committee— L. L. Eshelman, A. H. Bogue, C. C. Smith, 

 J. W. Low, Myrtle Vankirk, Mary Grossman and Sam Rowe. 



Membership Committee for State Society— J. C. Grossman, J. W. Low, 

 R. H. Newman, J. W. Mills, Mrs. D. B. Schaeffer and Rile C. Case. 



Membership Committee for Local Society— Mrs. R. C. Case, Mrs. 

 Charles Smith, George Roy, C. W. Sears and Mrs. O. A. Lampman. 



MRS. LIZZIE C. ROYER, 



Secretary. 



REPORT OF THE WAYNE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AND HORTI- 

 CULTURAL SOCIETY FOR 1904. 



BY WALTER S. RATLIFF, SECEETABY. 



I herewith submit the annual report to your honorable body of the 

 Wayne County Agricultural and Horticultural Society for the present 

 year, with a resume of the agricultural and horticultural conditions in 

 this section of Indiana. 



This society has been holding its regular meetings for almost half a 

 century, having organized in the city of Richmond in 1856, as the Rich- 

 mond Horticultural Society, which name it maintained for several years, 

 or until its reorganization. 



The summer sessions are usually held at the residence of some of 

 its members, or in some of the public parks that are to be found in various 

 portions of the county. At such meetings, well-tilled baskets are usually 

 taken and the members and their friends spend the day socially, and in 

 the consideration and comparison of the products of the field, orchard 

 and garden that are to be found on the exhibition tables. 



Tlie annual festival dinner in Fol)ruary is uiiiciU'' niul successful. From 

 premium lists previously issued our lady members good-naturedly vie 

 with one another in their competition for premiums on their culinary 

 articles that are taken, which are afterwards placed on the large dinner 

 tables, making the feast complete. 



