REPORTS FROM COUNTY SOCIETIES. 



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MICHIGAN STATE ASSOCIATION OF AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 



TENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION AT LANSING, MICH., FEBRUARY 



7-8, 1SS3. 



OFFICERS : 



President, Wm. Ball, Hamburs:; vice-president, Ben B. Baker, Lansing; secretary 

 and treasurer, Frank Little, of Kalamazoo. 



Executive Committee— A. C. Gidden, Paw Paw; H. C. Sherwood, Watervleit; H. 

 H.Hinds, Stanton. 



The association is composed of delegates from agricultural, horticultural, 

 and kindred societies of the State, and all persons interested in agriculture 

 and the work of the association are invited to seats in the convention as hon- 

 orary members. 



OPENING OF THE CONVENTION. 



"Wednesday evening, Feb. 7, 3883, 8 P. M. Convention assembled in 

 -'' Pioneer HaH," capitol building, Lansing, and in the absence of President 

 Ball, wa8 called to order by Vice-President Baker. 



List of organizations and delegates that were reported at the secretary's 

 ■desk : — 



Michigan State Agricultural Society— W. J. Baxter, Wm. Ball, A. F. "Wood. 

 Central Michigan Agricultural Society, Lansing— Ben B. Baker, J. N. Smith, D. F. 

 Woodcock, L. B. Potter. 



State Agricultural College— R. H. Baird, secretary. 



Hubbardston Central— M. J. Miner, D. G. Burch, A. V. Phister. 



Eastern Michigan— C. M. Fellows. 



Kalamazoo county— C. E. Morrison, J. B. Cobb, Frank Little, S, B, Hammond. 



Western Michigan, Grand Rapids — H. C. Sherwood. 



Ionia county — D. H. English, M. Spaulding, A. M. Willets. 



Jackson county — W. J. G. Dean. 



Calhoun county — Wm. Radford. 



Clinton county — R. B. Caruss. 



Gratiot county — U. B. Baldwin, O. F. Jackson. 



St. Joseph county — Joseph Farrand, J. McCoy. 



Union Agricultural Society, Plainwell — Wna. Cox. 



Van Buren county — E. B. Welch. 



Secretary of States' office — Robert L, Hewitt, compiler farm statistics. 



Beu B. Gibbons — Editor Michigan Farmer. 



