728 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



PAINTING AND DRAWING BY AMATEUR ARTISTS. 



Painting 61 $122 00 $71 00 



Drawing 56 42 00 35 00 



Industrial art 60 89 00 31 00 



Total 177 .$253 00 $137 00 



RECAPITULATION. 



Number of entries, all departments 424 



Amount offered $1,230 00 



Amount awarded 647 00 



Total $1 ,877 00 



Owing to sickness, I was unable to be present at the last annual meet- 

 ing, and I want to thank the gentlemen wbo so kindly carried out the 

 work for me. I spent one day previous to the opening of the fair and 

 made partial arrangements and am informed that all was carried out 

 and that good feeling prevailed and that all was harmonious. Last 

 year I recommended a complete revision of Division X, and was in- 

 structed by the committee to have it done, but owing to the long delay 

 in deciding the holding of the exhibition, the work was not accomplished. 

 I renew my recommendation again, for the same reasons as given last 

 year, viz.: That the list, as now printed, is not up to late art work, and 

 it costs the society more to carry on this list than it would were it mod- 

 ernized and made to fit present progressive conditions of the profession. 

 I have no other recommendations to of 



Resped fully submitted, 



M. P. ANDERSON, 

 Superintendent. 



To the President and member- of the Executive Committee of the Mich- 

 igan State Agricultural Society: 



Gentlemen — Having been during the last Si ale Fair, assigned to the 

 above department, owing to the illness of its superintendent, I have to 

 say that I most heartily endorse the recommendations contained in his 

 report. I would also add that Prof. Wise, who was in charge of Di- 

 vision N, is entitled to credit for the admirable arrangement of exhibits in 

 that division and for the harmony which seemed to prevail there. The 

 greater portion of exhibits in Division L and M were not entered for 

 premiums, but simply for exhibition. Notably so were the exhibits 

 from the city of Grand Rapids. To mention any one of the latter in 

 point of preference would seem to me unjust, as they were all of a high 

 order, reflecting credit not only to the exhibitor and the city of Grand 

 Rapids, but to the fair and State at large. 



But for the assistance of the President and Secretary of this Society, 

 and whom I desire to tbank, my duties in connection with this depart- 

 ment, which were entirely new to me, would have been extremely em- 

 barrassing. 



