552 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



dent shall be chairman, with instructions to endeavor to secure propositions to select 

 four or more places, and to submit propositions and recommendations to the society 

 at its next winter meeting, to the end that definite action may then be taken. . 



Respectfully submitted, 



W. J. BAXTER, 

 PHILO PARSONS, 

 F. V. SMITH, 



Committee, 



Eeport accepted and adopted. 



Mr. Cobb, Committee on Baker protest, asked for further time to report, 

 ■which was, on motion, granted. 



Mr. Baxter asked to be excused from serving on Premium List Committee. 

 On motion of Mr. Chamberlain, the request was granted, and Mr. A. F. Wood 

 appointed a member of the committee. 



. The report of the Horticultural Lepartment was presented, and upon motion, 

 accepted and referred. 



The committee then adjourned. 



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THIRD DAY. 



Michigan Exchange, 

 Detroit, Jem. 10, 1883. 



]he Executive Committee resumed its session at 9 o'clock A. M., as per 

 adjournment. 



The roll was called, and the following named members found present : Mr. 

 President Fralick, Mr. Treasurer Dean, Messrs. Sterling, Eising, Hanford, 

 Ball, Lessiter, Cobb, Mitchell, Hyde, Eeed, Smith, Burrington, Wood, 

 Chamberlain, Parsons, Angel, Howard, Harrison, Butterfield, Gilbert, 

 Anderson, Baxter, and the Secretary. 



Mr. Parsons introduced Judge Maynard, Eomeo, Mich., who addressed the 

 committee, recommending the ''Morton Eeversible Tread Horse Power." 



Mr. Parsons presented an invitation from Mr. Hiram Walker, asking the 

 Executive Committee to visit his stables. Accepted with thanks. 



The minutes of Tuesday's session were adopted as printed, without being 

 read. 



Mr. Parsons then read the report of the Superintendent of the Art Depart- 

 ment, as follows : 



ART DEPARTMENT. 



To the Pr.es^vdent and Executive Committee of the State Agricultural Society: 



Gentlemen, — The entire number of entries in Division N was 237; premiums 

 offered, §465; premiums awarded, $301. The absence of the great collection of paint- 

 ings which occupied so prominent a place in the art gallery of the fair of 1881, it was 

 thought, would materially detract from the interest and value of the display in 1882, 

 hut such did not prove to be the fact. The Increased number of productions by 

 Michigan artists, in various forms, fully compensated for the lack of a distinctive 

 show gallery. The entries for 1882 were more varied in their character, and of 

 greater interest and artistic merit than ever before shown, and conclusively prove a 

 rapidly growing taste throughout the entire State in this conspicuous evidence of 

 advanced culture. No stronger proof could be adduced than this interesting display 

 of varied art collections of the high character of culture and education in Michigan. 

 Without special enumeration, decorations on china may be specially noted as form- 

 ing a feature of added interest, and great improvement in this direction may be 

 anticipated in the future. In view of the competition, which it seems so desirable to 

 stimulate, we would respectfully suggest an increased number of premiums, and in 



