PROCEEDINGS AND REPORTS. 557 



Present : Chairman Hyde, Treasurer Dean, Messrs. Hanford, Lessiter, 

 Kelsey, Sharp, Fifield, Keed, Smith, Burrington, Wood, Turner, Shoe- 

 maker, J. P., Gard, Howard, Butterfield, Watkins, Anderson, Wells, Phil- 

 lips, Chamberlain, and Secretary. 



Mr. Sharp offered the following, which was adopted : 



Whereas, Large appropriations have been made by former legislatures of this State 

 to provide ample accommodations for the Chemical, Botanical, Entomological, Veter- 

 inary, Mechanical and Horticultural departments of the Michigan Agricultural Col- 

 lege, aggregating many thousands of dollars for each of these departments, while the 

 Agricultural Department, according to the Governor's recent message, has been allowed 

 only the meagre sum of $400 for this purpose ; and 



Whereas, We believe that the Agricultural Department, which at an Agricultural 

 College, in the very nature of things, should be kept fully abreast of all others in its 

 equipment for work, that it may stand on an equal plane with them ; and, 



Whereas, The State Board of Agriculture has placed in their bill of estimates, to 

 present to the Stale Legislature now in session, the sum of $8,000 for an Agricultural 

 laboratory and equipment, which action has been indorsed by the State Grange at its 

 recent session, by the Michigan Sheep Breeders' Association, the Holstein, Shorthorn 

 and Galloway Cattle Breeders' Associations at their recent annual meetings ; and, 



Whereas, We believe that this appropriation will greatly contribute to the efficiency 

 of the Agricultural Department and is in accord with the advanced public sentiment 

 of the leading agricultural organizations in this State ; therefore be it 



Resolved, That, as the Executive Committee of the State Agricultural Society, we 

 hereby cordially indorse the action of the Board of Agriculture in asking for this 

 appropriation, and we hereby most respectfully petition the Honorable, the Legislature 

 of Michigan, now in session, to make such appropriation, feeling assured that the best 

 interests of the College and of the State will be served by such action. And your peti- 

 tioners will ever pray. 



Resolved, That the Secretary of this Committee forward a copy of this preamble and 

 resolutions to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representa- 

 tives at Lansing, with the request that they be printed in the Legislative Journal, and 

 referred to the proper committee. 



Mr. Fifield moved to reconsider so much of the report of the Premium 

 Committee as refers to striking out Hampshire sheep. 



The motion prevailed. 



The same gentleman then moved that Hampshire sheep be placed back 

 in the list, with the same premiums as last year. 



Carried. 



A resolution of thanks was voted the Michigan Central and the Detroit, 

 Lansing & Northern railroad companies for courtesies extended. 



The following resolution was adopted : 



Resolved, That this Society shall join with all other agricultural societies in this State 

 in requesting of the Legislature an appropriation annually to aid the various agricult- 

 ural societies to an amount equal to twenty per cent of the premium lists paid by the 

 several societies, and that the secretary of this Society be and is hereby directed to 

 notify the presidents and secretaries of each agricultural society in this State of this 

 movement. 



