18 BOAKD OF AGRICULTURE. 



MEETING OF DELEGATE IK)AKI). ' 



The fifty-first aiuinal iiicoliiio- of the Delegate Board of the 

 Indiana State Board of Agiicnltnre met in the rooms of the 

 Indiana State Board of Ag-ricnltnre in the State Honse, in the 

 city of Indianapolis, Indiana, on Tnesday, January 6th, 1903, 

 at 10 o'clock a. m., pursuant to the law governing- said Indiana 

 State Board of Agriculture. 



There were present, Hon. M. S. Claypool, President ; Hon. 

 John L. Thompson, Vice-President; Charles Downing, Secretary, 

 and E. H. Peed, General Superintendent, and the following mem- 

 bers of the Board: 



First District — John 0. Haines. 

 Second District — Mason J. IsTiblack. 

 Third District— E. S. Tuell. 

 Fourth District — John Tilson 

 Fifth District— H. L. Nowlin. 

 Sixth District — Knode Porter. 

 Seventh District — David Wallace. 

 Eighth District — Sid Conger. 

 Ninth District — ^W. T. Beauchamp. 

 Eleventh District — M. S. Claypool. 

 Twelfth District— Wm. M. Blackstock. 

 Thirteenth District — John L. Thompson. 

 Fourteenth District — Joe Cunningham. 

 Fifteenth District — C. B. Benjamin. 

 Sixteenth District^ — James E. McDonald. 



Mr. John C. Bridges, member for the Tenth District, was 

 absent. 



There were also present a nund)er of delegates, who ]>resented 

 their certificates of election when the meeting was declared open 

 by the President. 



Hon. C. A. Bookwalter, Mayor of tlic city cf Iiidiaiuqxdis, was 

 introduced to the meeting by the President, and s])oke as follows: 



