690 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION OF BREEDERS OF IMPROVED LIVE 



STOCK. 



program of the eighth annual meeting held in the senate chamber 

 at lansing wednesday. december 'il 1898. 



9:00 a. m. 

 Address by the President. 

 Keport of the Secretary-Treasurer. 

 Discussion of Topics in President's Address. 



10:30 a. M. 



"Wool and its Preparation for Market," by Prof. H. W. Mumford, Agricultural 



College. 

 Discussion. 



11:00 a. m. 

 "The Situation." 



Horse Breeding, Robert Gibbons. 

 Cattle Breeding, William Ball. 

 Sheep Breeding, A. A. Wood. 

 Swine Breeding, L. F. Conrad. 

 Election of Officers. 



1:30 p. m. 



Tuberculosis, Dr. C. E. Marshall, Bacteriologist Experiment Station, followed by 



Discussion of the Subject. 

 Some Observations Regarding Swine Plague in Michigan, Dr. G. A. Waterman, 



Agricultural College. 

 H. H. HINDS, President. I. H. BUTTERFIELD, 



B. F. PECKHAM, Vice President. Agricultural College, Secretary. 



The improved Live Stock Breeders' Association met in the Senate 

 Chamber at Lansing, Wednesday, December 21, 1808. 



The Secretary read the minutes of the last meeting, which were ap- 

 proved. 



President Hinds presented an invitation from the Detroit Convention 

 League and from the mayor of the city, to hold the next meeting at 

 Detroit. 



The President then delivered his annual adress. He spoke in part as 

 follows: He called attention to an act of congress in 1816 repealing a 

 statute passed a few years before, giving each soldier of the war of 1812 

 160 acres of land in Michigan. The reason given for the repeal of the 

 law was that there w T as scarcely 160 acres of fit land for cultivation in 

 the entire state. From this circumstance he argued that the develop- 

 ment of the state has been phenomenal, and that not the smallest factor 

 in the progress made by agriculture has been live stock industry. In 

 1894 it is said the census of the state showed that instead of the soil being 

 "swampy beyond description," it was holding up 663,447 horses. 5,332 

 mules, 1,060,962 cattle, 1,045,151 hogs and 3,443,975 sheep, a grand total 

 of 6,218,807 head of live stock. 



While the Presidenl was unable to give figures, lie was confident that 

 the number of thoroughbred American Merino Sheep in the state is 

 greater than in any other slate in the Union and that the farmers of the 

 state are carrying many more recorded Shropshire sheep than are owned 

 in any other state or possibly country. The figures introduced indicated 

 that the live stock industry in Michigan is vast, and that the members 



