192 TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART III. 



President Cameron : You have heard the report of the Com- 

 mittee on Credentials. A motion to accept the report will be in order. 



D. V. Moore, Woodbury County : I move that the report of the 

 Committee on Credentials be accepted, and the committee continued 

 so that if any other delegates report they may be added to the list. 



Motion was seconded and carried. 



President Cameron : We will now have the report of the Com- 

 mittee on Resolutions. 



R. R. Clark, Chairman, Grundy County: Gentlemen: I desire to pre- 

 sent the following resolutions which have been drafted by the Resolutions 

 Committee: 



"We desire to congratulate the Management and Officers of the Iowa 

 State Fair on the eminently efficient and successful management of the 

 fair and all work pertaining to the State Department of Agriculture in 

 the crucial period that has been passed during the current year, and we 

 pledge our hearty support and co-operation in the conducting of future 

 fairs and other work of the State Department of Agriculture that is 

 rendering such valuable service to the agricultural and industrial in- 

 terests of Iowa." 



"We desire to extend our hearty congratulations to the Girls' Club 

 contestants from Iowa at the International Live Stock Exposition on 

 winning the highest honors in that competition including a trip to 

 France where further demonstrations will be given; To the Junior club 

 boys of Iowa on winning the Grand Championship in the baby beef con- 

 test at the International, and second in the Junior live stock judging 

 contest. To the College students of the Iowa State College on winning 

 the highest honors in the collegiate live stock judging contest at the 

 International, with twenty states competing, and the highest honors in- 

 cluding every first prize and every trophy offered in the International 

 Poultry Judging contest. 



"We desire to express our sorrow and sympathy, and our high appre- 

 ciation of the great public service of two of the State's most eminent 

 citizens, who passed away during the year and who served the State 

 most honorably and efficiently in many capacities; and we wish to refer 

 especially to the service of Hon. W. W. Morrow and Captain Albert M. 

 Head, each of whom served the State Department of Agriculture as Presi- 

 dent and Treasurer successively." 



R. R. CLARK, 



C. A. WENSTRAND, 



C. F. CURTISS, 



Committee on Resolutions. 



R. R. Clark, Grundy County: I move that the resolutions be 

 adopted. 



Motion was seconded and carried. 



President Cameron : There being no special committee to report 

 at this time, the next order of business will be the election of the 

 Officers and Directors of the State Board of Agriculture. 



