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of money vnW have to be expended, I believe that for this year we should 

 go slow and incur no indebtedness of any kind that could as well be avoided, 

 and no new buildings or imf)rovements should be undertaken until we at 

 least clean up our present floating indebtedness. 



I wish to thank the superintendents of the different departments for their 

 honest and conscientious efforts to make their departments the great success 

 they were, and through their gentlemanly conduct we have been receiving 

 nothing but letters of congratulation and most satisfactory and pleasing 

 reports from exhibitors, which have already secured the success of the fair 

 of 1907. 



At this time I wish to express individually my personal thanks and ap- 

 preciation to these superintendents who did so much to the honor and credit 

 of Michigan's greatest State Fair. 



A. E. STEVENSON, 



Chairman. 



REPORTS OF EXECUTIVE SUPERINTENDENTS. 



CATTLE DEPARTMENT. 



To the President and Executive Committee of the Michigan State Agri- 

 cultural Society-: 



Gentlemen — Your superintendent of cattle begs leave to offer the follow- 

 ing report. At the Michigan State Fair held in the city of Detroit, and 

 closing Sept. 7th, 1906, the cattle exhibit was truly a record breaker both 

 in quality and numbers of the exhibit. 



Both the beef and dairy branches of the cattle industry were represented 

 by animals of the highest type of their respective breeds. 



In the beef classes, while the Short-horns led somewhat in numbers, as 

 might have been inferred, the Aberdeen-Angus, the Galloway's and the 

 Herefords were vers"- much in evidence, showing conclusively that all of 

 these valuable breeds of cattle must positively be reckoned with an in- 

 ventory of the beef cattle interests of this great state of ^Michigan. 



In the Short-horn classes sixteen herds were .represented, nine of which 

 were from our own state. To make special mention of any of these mag- 

 nificent herds would, perhaps, be doing an injustice to the balance. The 

 entries made by A. E. and A. G. Stevenson of our own state and George H. 

 Oke, of Ontario, were a cattle exhibit alone that would do credit as an entire 

 show at a modern fair. What is true of these herds might perhaps be said 

 with equal force of others. 



The Polled Durhams brought to the ring four herds, two of which were 

 home state cattle. The quality of the exhibits in these classes were such 

 as to show that this valuable breed should be encouraged. 



The exhibit of Aberdeen Angus was indeed a most striking one, six herds 

 being represented, four of which were from our own state. 



Perhaps no handsomer cattle or none that attracted more general atten- 

 tion were sho^vTi than those found in the Galloway department. Here we 

 found three herds from Michigan and one from^outside the State. 



A beautiful and also attractive lot of cattle were the Herefords, two herds 

 of which were in from abroad and an equal number from home. 



