120 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



The committee on Resolutions made the following report^ 

 and on motion of the Chairman the report was adopted: 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS. 



Your Committee on Resolutions would most respectfully report the 

 following: 



We rejoice at the large attendance of the present meeting of this 

 society and the unusual interest manifested in agriculture and its kin- 

 dred interests; we are proud of the magnificent exhibit in corn, the 

 finest, said to be, ever held in the State of Iowa, as well as the fine 

 extensive exhibit of fruits; and the thanks of this convention are hereby 

 extended to the officers of the State Board of Agriculture for theii: 

 efforts in making the present meeting of unusual interest and success; 

 we recognize that our State Agricultural College is doing a grand work, 

 and has not only a national, but an international reputation, and it 

 should receive the liberal and generous support of our legislature. 



The State Fair is a reflex of the intelligence, thrift and progressive- 

 ness of the people of Iowa, and the efforts of its officers in keeping it 

 in a clean, moral and healthy tone should receive the commendation 

 of all of its patrons. 



VJhereas, The encouragement of good roads in Iowa is most desir- 

 able and of vast importance to all its citizens; therefore, be it 



Resolved, That it is the sense of this society that the ensuing legis- 

 lature pass some measure for the encouragement of the use of wagons 

 with wide tires on public highways. Also that the legislature pass a 

 law requiring township trustees to make reasonable compensation to 

 the owner or occupants of the land abutting on highways for work expend- 

 ed upon such portions of the highway during the year, under the direc- 

 tion of the township trustees or road supervisors, and not to exceed 

 fifty per cent of the road tax of such persons in any one year. 



Resolved, That we recognize the great necessity for a pure food 

 law in this State, and we most earnestly request the members of the 

 ensuing legislature to cause a suitable food law to be enacted, prohibit- 

 ing the adulteration and misbranding of all articles of food and drink 

 for man and domestic animals. 



Resolved, By the Iowa State Farmers' Institute and the Iowa State 

 Board of Agriculture. That we very much regret to learn of the action 

 of the commission merchants, through their respective live stock exchanges 

 at different markets, providing for an advance in the commission 

 charges for selling stock. The live stock industry at the present time is 

 in no condition to bear an additional tax of any kind whatever, and 

 it seems to us an especially inopportune time for our commission mer- 

 chants to arbitrarily, and, so far as we can see, without good reason, 

 advance their charges. In behalf of the farmers and feeders and live 

 stock shippers of the State of Iowa, these Associations wish to enter 

 a most vigorous protest against the proposed advance and to urge the 

 different live stock exchanges to reconsider their action. 



