122 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



4. Inasmuch as the basic wealth of Iowa is founded upon the resources 

 and development of her agricultural progression, we earnestly request the 

 legislative committee to present to the next General Assembly the needs 

 for the completion and the repair of the improvements at the state fair 

 grounds, and ask an appropriation sufficient to meet the present necessi- 

 ties. We further recommend that the said legislative committee cooper- 

 ate with a like committee of the Iowa Fair Managers Association in look- 

 ing forward to increased appropriations for county and district fairs. 



H. O. WEAVER, 

 ROSS J. SHANAHAN, 

 G. H. WHITE, 



Committee on Resolutions. 



The President: The next order of business will be the election 

 of the officers and members of the State Board of Agriculture. 



The Vice President: The first office to be filled is that of 

 president. Gentlemen, what is your pleasure? 



F. W. Weary, Sac County : I wish to place in nomination Mr. 

 C. E. Cameron, Buena Vista County, to succeed himself as presi- 

 dent of the State Board of Agriculture. 



Mr. George White of Mills County seconded the nomination. 

 There being no other nominations, Mr. Weary moved that the 

 rules be suspended and that the secretary be instructed to cast 

 the vote of all delegates present for Mr. C. E. Cameron. Motion 

 was seconded and carried, and the secretary announced that he 

 so cast the 134 votes of the delegates present for Mr. Cameron. 

 The vice president declared Mr. Cameron duly elected president 

 of the State Board of Agriculture for the ensuing year. 



Mr. Cameron assumed the chair and made the following re- 

 marks : ''Gentlemen of the Convention: I certainly consider this 

 a high honor, and I know your time is limited as a great many 

 of you desire to take an early train for home, and I will there- 

 fore make no formal address." 



The President: The next will be the election of a vice presi- 

 dent for the ensuing year. 



S. D. Quarton, Kossuth County : I desire to place in nomination 

 for vice president Mr. J. P. Mullen of Pocahontas County to suc- 

 ceed himself in this position. 



The motion was duly seconded by E. J. Curtin of Winneshiek 

 County. There being no other nominations, Mr. Quarton moved 

 that the rules be suspended and that the secretary be instructed 

 to cast the vote of the convention for Mr. Mullen to succeed him- 



