408 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTUEE. 



On motion Division L was referred to the same committee. 

 ' With the above exceptions the report of tlie premium list committee was 

 adopted, with the sundry amendments made and noted. (See list appended.) 



Messrs. Van Valkenburgh and Phelps, from the premium list committee, 

 reported a list of premiums for speed iirizes, and its adoption was moved and 

 euiiported. 



Mr. Beckwith moved that the premiums for running races be stricken out, 

 and the amount so offered to be added to the present or new speed classes for 

 trotting ; which motion was lost. The report of the committee was adopted. 



Mr. Dean offered the following resolution, which was adopted : 



Sesolved, That premiums to the amount of $100 he offered for imported draft stal- 

 lions of any hreed, or those hred from both imported sire and dam, four years old and 

 over, as follows: First premium, $50; second premium, $30; third premium, §20. 

 Animals to he sound, and to weigh not less than 1,500 pounds each. 



Mr. Childs, from the Committee on Farmers' Clubs, reported as follows, 

 which Avas adopted : 



The si^ecial committee appointed to award premiums " to the farmers' club of any 

 township in the State of Michigan which should furnish to the committee evidence 

 that their greatest amount of improvement in tlie system of cultivation in the town- 

 ship of its location has been accomplished through the organization and efforts of 

 said club,'' would respectfully report that in this chiss but one entry has been made, 

 that of the " Volinia Farmers' Club," of the township of Yolinia, in Cass county. The 

 said club Avas organized in 18G5, and has been in verj' successful operation to the pres- 

 ent time. A full history of the organization, object, manner of conducting the said 

 club, and the results of the same, as seen in connection with the improvement and 

 success in the system of the agriculture of the township, has been spread before your 

 committee, showing on the part of those engaged therein thorough system, great per- 

 severance, earnest and long continued interest, with most gratifying resnlts. Able 

 and carefully written essays upon various important questions connected with the 

 interests of agriculture, have from time to time been presented for the consideration 

 of the members of the said club, several of which essays your committee have had the 

 opportunity of examining, and take pleasure in speaking of them as possessing great 

 merit, and believing that the said club is well worthy the premium olTered, and your 

 committee would recommend that the same be thus awarded. 



E. W. RISIIS^G, 



J. WEBSTER CHILDS, 



G. W. PHILLIPS, 



Committee. 

 ■ Adjourned to Friday morning at 9 o'clock. 



Friday, Januartj, 15, 1S75. 



Called to order by the President. Koll called, and quorum present. 



Minutes read. 



Mr. Baxter offered the following resolutions, which were adopted : 



Besolved, That no viewing committees be appointed at this meeting in Divisions 

 A, B, C, and D. and that the appointment of viewing committees for each of said 

 divisions be referred to the Superintendents, Avho shall be appointed to take charge 

 of said dlA'isions, acting together as a committee, under such regulations as they deem 

 advisable. That the names of such committeemen shall not be published in premivma 

 list, or disclosed until the proper time for viewing the animals or awarding the pre- 

 miums. 



Besolved, That so much of the rule in Division A, Class 10, as requires that " not less 

 than three of the animals exhibited in herd shall be bred by the exhibitor" shall be 

 stricken out. 



Besolved, That the same premiums be offered to local notices in the coming fair as 

 in 1874. 



