PART I 



STATE FARMERS' INSTITUTE— AGRICULTURAL CON- 

 VENTION—SYNOPSIS OF STATE BOARD AND 

 COMMLTTEE MEETINGS FOR 1905. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON ADULTERATION OF FOOD, 



ETC. LEGISLATION RECOMMENDED AND ENACTED 



BY THIRTY- FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 



REPORT OF SECRETARY 



REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THF IOWA STATE 



FARMERS' INSTITUTE, HELD IN THE ROOMS OF THE 



DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTRE, IN THE CAPITOL 



BUILDING, DES MOINES, IOWA, ON DECEMBER 



12-13, 1905. 



FORENOON SESSION 



December I2, io:oo a. m. 



President Morrow of the State Board of Agriculture in the 

 chair. 



The President: Gentlemen, you will please come to order. 

 We will first listen to the address of welcome, by Harvey Ing- 

 ham, editor of the Register and Leader, of this city.* 



* Owlnar to the Inability of the shorthand rfporter to report the address of Mr. 

 InKham, we are unable to include itiathe report. Thia we regret very much, as the 

 address was an able one, and well received by those In attendance at the meeting, editob 



