STATK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 503 



HORSES. 



Moved by Mr. Baxter, that Class 12, Division B, remain the same as last year 

 with the addition of suitable premiums for yearling colts. 



Mr. Baxter withdrew his motion. 



Mr. Fralick moved that the report of the Committee on Division B, Classes 

 17 and 17^ be non-concurred in, and that the premiums in these Classes re- 

 main the same as last year. 



Adopted as follows ; 



Ayes— Messrs. Angel, Burrington, Dewey, Howard, Manning, Smith, Cobb, Fralick, 

 Kipp, Parsons, Sterling, Shoemaker, Baxter and the Treasurer and Secretar)' — 15. 



]Srays— Messrs. Hanford, Wood, Ball, Hyde, Phillips, Rising, Beckwitb, Humphrey 

 and the President — 9. 



Moved by Mr. Dewey, that Classes 11, 1:2, 13, ]4, 15 and IG, as in the pre- 

 mium list of 1878, be substituted in place of the report of the committee. 

 Adopted. 



Moved by Mr. Sterling, that all action on Division B be recoiisiered. 

 Moved by Mr. Baxter, that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table. 

 Lost. 



On motion, the Committee adjourned until 9 o'clock Thursday morning. 

 Approved. 



W. L. WEBBER, President. 



FOURTH DAY. 



Thursday 3Iorni7ig, January 26, 1ST9. 



The Committee met at 9 o'cock A. M. 



President Webber in the chair. 



Present, Messrs. Angel, Burrington, Deweyl Ilauford, Howard, Manning, 

 Smith, Wood, Ball, Cobb, Fralick, Hyde, Kipp, Parsons, Phillips, Kising, 

 Sterling, M. Shoemaker, W. G. Beckwith, W. J. Baxter, the Treasurer, Sec- 

 retary, and the President. 



The minutes of yesterday's proceedings were read, corrected and approved. 



Mr. Sterling, from the Special Committe on County and other Agricultural 

 Societies, submitted the following report: 



The Special Committee on county and other agricultural societies, to whom were 

 referred reports received by the Secretary from such societies, would respectfully 

 report: Tliat during the past year, and since your last winter meeting, the number 

 of county and other agricultural societies that under our constitution and in con- 

 templation of law, should be auxiliary to and in close connection with the Michigan 

 State Agricultural Society, and from which our society should receive annual re- 

 ports, have increased from 55 to 61, though a portion of this increase is due to reor- 

 ganization of old societies under new names. The actual number from which we 

 should have received reports, is, we believe, 58. Of these 27 have furnished reports 

 or communications ;is against six reports received from local societies last year. 



This is a very gratifying result and evinces a growing intei'est on the part of such 

 societies, in the State Society, whose constant aim and object should be to encour- 

 age the formation of such county societies, and in every possible way to aid them 

 in their eftbrts to develop the agricultural, horticultural, pomological, mechanical 

 and industrial interests of their respective localities. 



These annual reports indicate the various methods employed and the success at- 

 tending them, and enables the State society, through its officers, and exhibitions, to 



