TWELFTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART Y. 213 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



The board reconvened at 1 :30 p. m. with members present 

 as at the morning session, also Dr. P. 0. Koto. 



Mr. Curtiss stated that the U. S. Department of Agriculture had 

 withdrawn recognition for all stud books associations and that by 

 an act of the Thirty-fourth C4eneral Assembly it became the duty 

 of the Board of Agriculture to approve a list of stud books to be 

 recognized by the Iowa Department of Agriculture in the work 

 of the Division of Horse Breeding. ]Mr. Curtiss moved that the 

 tioard approve the list of stud books recognized by the National 

 Society of Record Associations. Motion seconded by ^Ir. Curtiii 

 and unanimously adopted. 



The president announced that the committee appointed to re- 

 ceive applications for the position of secretary of the board were 

 ready to make their report. The chairman of the committee made 

 the following verbal report: ''Two members as a majority of the 

 committee, are of the opinion that there should be no changes in 

 the present conditions of the secretaryship until the annual meet- 

 ing in December. The other member of the committee is of the 

 opinion that we should proceed to the election of a secretary 

 at once." 



The question was on the adoption of the report of a majority 

 of the committee. The ballot resulted as follows : To sustain the 

 report, 10 ; to reject the report, 7. Therefore further considera- 

 tion of the secretaryship was postponed until the annual nieetiniz' 

 of the board in December. 



Mr. Ledgerwood tendered his resignation as vice president of 

 the State Board of xVgricultiu-e. which read as follow^S: 



Hon. C. E. Cameron, President, 



State Board of Agriculture. 

 Dear Sir: I hereby tender my resignation as vice-president of the 

 Iowa State Board of Agriculture. 



Very respectfully, 



.JOHN LEDGERWOOD. 



On motion the resignation of Mr. Ledgerwood was placed on 

 tile to be considered later. 



On motion the board adjourned to the fair grounds to look over 

 the location for the machinery building and the sanitary closets. 



At five o'clock the board reconvened in the office of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, president Cameron in the chair. 



