STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



PKOCEEDINGS FOR THE YEAE 1876. 



Secretabt's Office, 

 Pontiac, Mich., Dec. 19, 1876. 



To the President and Executive Committee of the Michigan State Agricult^tral 

 Society : 



Gentlemen: — I have the honor herewith to submit the detailed annual 

 report of the proceedings of the Michigan State Agricultural Society for the 

 year 1876. 



Your obedient servant, 



C. F. KIMBALL, 



Secretary. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



ANNUAL WINTER MEETING. 



In accordance with the call issued by the President, the oflBcers and members 

 of the Executive Committee of this Society assembled at the parlors of the Eus- 

 sell House, Detroit, on Monday evening, December 20, and were called to order 

 at 7 : 30. The roll was called and the following gentlemen answered to their 

 names : 



President — E. O. Humplii-ej'-, Kalamazoo. 



Secretary — C. F. Kimball, Pontiac. 



Executive Committee— George W. Phillips, E. W. Rising, Joseph M. Sterling, C. W. 

 Greene, Wm. M. Ferry, A. O. Hyde, J. M. French, A. F. Wood, J. Q. A. Burrington, F. 

 M. Manning, Wm. L. Webber, E. Van Valkenburg, D. W. Howard, H. O. Hauford, J. 

 Webster Childs, R. G. Hart. 



Ex-Preside7its—M. Shoemaker, W. J. Baxter, Charles Kipp. 



A quorum being present the President declared the meeting ready for busi- 

 ness, and addressed the committee as follows : 

 Gentlemen of the Executive Committee and Members of the State Agricultural Society : 



For the repetition of your kindness and confidence permit me to thank you. We 

 are again met in the interests of the State Agricultural Society, to review the past 

 and plan, revise, and arrange for the coming year. 



These meetings, to me, have become occasions of very great pleasure as well as profit. 



