FOURTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART I. 89 



Mr. Geo. S. Forest of Jackson county moved the adoption of 

 the report as read. Motion prevailed. 



Convention nov^ proceeded to the election of officers. 



The president appointed R. T. St. John of Mitchell county, 

 J. F. Morris of Sioux county and Chas. Porter of Marion 

 county as tellers. 



R. T. St. John placed in nomination for the office of president 

 for the ensuing year W. W. MorroAV of Union county to suc- 

 'ceed himself, and moved that if there were no other nominations 

 that the rules be suspended and the secretary instructed to cast 

 the unanimous vote of the convention for W. W. Morrow. Mo- 

 tion prevailed. The secretary so cast the vote, and Mr. Mor- 

 row was declared to have been duly elected president of the 

 Department of Agriculture for the ensuing year. 



M. J. AVragg placed in nomination for the office of vice 

 president C. E. Cameron of Buena Vista county, to succeed him- 

 self, and moved that if there were no other nominations that 

 the rules be suspended and the secretary instructed :o cast the 

 iinanimotis vote of the convention for Mr. Cameron. Motion 

 prevailed. The secretary so cast the vote and the president 

 <leclared INIr. Cameron duly elected vice president of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture for the ensuing year. 



J. P. Manatrey of Jefferson county and R. S. Johnston of 

 Louisa county were placed in nomination for meml)er of the 

 State Board of Agriculture from the First district. The roll 

 was called by the secretary and the vote cast, and Vlie tellers 

 reported the result of the ballot as follows: Total i umber of 

 votes cast eighty-eight, of which R. S. Johnston received forty- 

 nine votes and J. P. Manatrey twenty-nine. R. S. Johnston 

 having received the majority of the votes cast, was declared by 

 the president to have been duly elected as a member of the 

 i>oard from the First district. 



B. L. Manwell of Black Hawk county placed in nomination 

 for member of the State Board of Agriculture from the Third 

 district, W. C. Brown of Wright county, to succeed himself, 

 which motion was seconded by E. M. Reeves of Bremer county. 

 It was moved that if there were no other nominations that the 

 xules be suspended and the secretary instructed to cast the unani- 



