MICHIGAN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 283 



The Michigan State Grange passed a resolution at its annual meeting, 

 asking for headquarters for meeting and entertaining on the fair grounds. 



An association has been formed in the Upper Peninsula of which Leo 

 M. Geismar, Superintendent of the Upper Peninsula Experiment Station 

 is Secretary, for the purpose of securing an exhibit of live stock, agri- 

 culture and horticultural products, at the State fair. We should co- 

 operate with this association in this work. 



The report was accepted and referred to the Finance Committee, 



The Business Committee reported as follows: 



Gentlemen of the Executive Committee: 



The Business Committee submits its report of the business trans- 

 actions of the Societj^ giving the expenditures in detail. 



It will be noted that the expenditures have been greater than in 

 1902, Among the items that make the increase is rent of grounds, 

 |1,143; booths erected, $818.70; work on grounds previous to the fair, 

 1976.82; pipe for farm machinery, |1G8.75; lumber, $537,83; material 

 used in 1902, $152.09. A total of $2,649.25 for labor and material, mak- 

 ing with the rent paid, $3,792 more than the ordinary expense. There is 

 on hand however of this lumber that cost $500 — the booths cost $818.76 

 (which are reserved), pipe, $163,75, or a total of $1,482.51. 



The committee was authorized to expend a total of $2,000 on the 

 premium list. The total cost of the premium list and distribution was 

 about $4,000, from which deducting advertising secured, $2,113, leaves 

 a net cost of the 100,000 copies distributed throughout the State about 

 |1,900, and the advertising, other than premium list, $4,438.80, or less 

 than in 1902, 



It is believed, however, that this unusual expenditure has so dis- 

 tributed knowledge of the society among the people of the State, that 

 the benefit will extend to the present and even succeeding years. 



It is the opinion of the committee that a large edition, finely illus- 

 trated, should be issued for 1904, believing that its value will warrant 

 the expense. 



The Business Committee have found it much more difficult each year 

 to find attractions that would please the public, and be in reach of the 

 limited amount of means we had placed in our hands for this purpose. 

 We hope in the near future the Society will have a home of sufficient 

 magnitude to call the eye of the State Legislature our way, and an 

 appropriation given us, something near equal to our sister states. 



EUGENE FIFIELD, 

 JOHN A. HOFFMAN, 

 I. H. BUTTERFIELD. 



The report was accepted and referred to the Finance Committee. 



