PROCEEDINGS STATE AGRICULTURAL CONVENTION 193 



Mr. Mullen, vice president, taking the chair stated that the first 

 order of business under' this heading would be the election of a 

 president of the State Board of Agriculture for the ensuing year. 



F. L. Eaton, Woodbury County: The duties of the State Board 

 of Agriculture are many and onerous, and they have been carried 

 on most successfully by the present Officers and Directors. Perhaps 

 the most exacting part of the work is the management of the Iowa 

 State Fair. This fair is one of the best in the country and in most 

 departments, leads all other State Fairs. It has been my good fortune 

 for several years to attend the Annual Meeting of the International 

 Association of Fairs, where I have seen the standing which the officers 

 of the Iowa State Fair have at this meeting, and it makes me proud 

 that I am from Iowa, and proud that I am a constituent of the 

 president of the Iowa State Fair for his advice is sought at this 

 national meeting. When we have a man who has done good work, 

 I believe in keeping him at the job, and therefore I take great pleasure 

 in nominating for President of the State Board of Agriculture, the 

 present incumbent, Mr. C. E. Cameron, of Buena Vista County. 



Motion was duly seconded. 



Vice President Mullen : Are there any other nominations ? 



Mr. Barber of Cerro Gordo county moved that the rules be sus- 

 pended and the secretary be instructed to cast the entire vote of the 

 convention for Mr. C. E. Cameron as President of the State Board 

 of Agriculture for the ensuing year. 



Motion was seconded. 



The motion was put and carried unanimously. The Secretary 

 announced that he has cast the entire vote for Mr. Cameron to suc- 

 ceed himself, and Mr. Mullen declared him duly elected President 

 of the State Board of Agriculture for the ensuing year. 



President Cameron : Gentlemen, I want you to realize that I 

 appreciate your continued confidence, and I want to say that I will 

 do everything possible to make the great Iowa State Fair bigger and 

 better. 



President Cameron : The next order of business will be the elec- 

 tion of a Vice President for the ensuing year. 



H. S. Stanberry, Webster County : Without any great flow of 

 oratory, which I do not possess, and realizing that it requires team 

 work to carry on the great Iowa State Fair, and knowing a good 

 friend of mine from my district in the northwestern part of the state 

 who is doing some good work on this board, I take pleasure in nomi- 



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