PART II 



Proceedings of the State Agricultural Convention. 



WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1916. 



DELEGATES PRESENT. 



Farmers ' Institutes 24 



Short Course 2 



County and District Fairs 46 



Counties not holding fairs 7 



STATE BOARD OP AGRICULTURE. 



Ex otificio Members^ 3 



Officials 4 



Directors 10 



The convention was called to order at ten o'clock in the agri- 

 cultural rooms at the State House, President C. E. Cameron of 

 the State Board of Agriculture in the chair. 



Vice President 0. A. Olson presided while President Cameron 

 delivered the following address : 



PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



C. E. CAMERON, ALTA. 



It is with pleasure and satisfaction that I greet you at the sixty- 

 second annual meeting of the Department of Agriculture, for we 

 certainly should feel grateful for this great year in Iowa. The 

 Lountiful crops and the prosperity of this state this year will, in 

 my opinion, long be remembered by the agricultural interests of the 

 state. Not only were we prosperous in agricultural lines, with 

 great crops and high prices for all farm products, but in all lines 

 throughout the state. 



The 1916 Iowa State Fair was the most successful, not only in a 

 financial way but in attendance; and I believe from an exhibit 

 standpoint it was the greatest agricultural fair ever held in the 



