166 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



We commend them for organizing the American Legion. We see In it 

 what we have seen in the Grand Army of the Republic and the United 

 Confederate Veterans, a soldier citizenry for law and order, a guaranty 

 that civil and religious liberty shall be maintained in the land. 



2. We commend especially the bureau of farm management, depart- 

 ment of agriculture, and we believe the work of the bureau of markets 

 and the bureau of crop estimates should be vitalized and adequately sup- 

 ported to meet the needs of agriculture. 



3. We appreciate the work of the press, both agricultural and secu- 

 lar, in its promotion of high ideals and constructive thought. 



4. We express our appreciation of the act of congress in repealing 

 the so-called daylight saving law. 



5. We are unqualifiedly in sympathy with the government's deter- 

 mination to suppress radicalism, and we lend our influence and support 

 to all efforts to rid this country of bolshevism and all other anarchistic 

 tendencies. 



Especially do we deplore the outrage committed at Centralia, in the 

 state of Washington, and we trust that the government has already 

 taken firm steps to punish the perpetrators of this crime and to prevent 

 the recurrence of any such outrage against the fiag and the citizens of 

 our country. 



NEGATION. 



1. We deny statements of some congressmen that farmers demand 

 free seed distribution and we condemn the practice. 



That is the platform of the American Farm Bureau; it is the platform 

 of the state farm bureaus, and it is the platform of the county farm bu- 

 reaus, and it is the platform that 120,000 farmers on December 20th will 

 be affiliated with, and that other similar organizations of the states are 

 affiliating themselves with. 



I thank you! 



The Chairman : We will now hear the report of the committee 

 on resolutions. 



Mr. H. S. Stanbery, chairman of the committee on resolutions, 

 read the following report : 



REPORT OP COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS. 



To the members of the State Agricultural Convention: 



We, your committee, beg leave to submit the following report: 



First, we desire to congratulate the management, the officers and di- 

 rectors of the Iowa State Fair on the great success they have made of 

 our state fair, last year's receipts and attendance being by far the larg- 

 est in the history of our organization. These results are accomplished 

 largely by the untiring efforts of our efficient directors. 



Therefore, Be It Resolved, That we extend to the officers and directors 



