STATE AGRICULTURE CONVENTION 

 AT DES MOINES. 



Wednesday, December 14, 1904. 



In accordance with section 1657-d, chapter 2 of the 1902 

 Supplement to the Code of Iowa, which provides as follows: 

 " There shall be held at the Capitol on the second Wednesday of 

 December, 1900, and annually thereafter, a State Agricultural 

 Convention, composed of the State Board of Agriculture, together 

 with the president and secretary of each county or district 

 society entitled to receive aid from the State, or a regularly 

 elected delegate therefrom accredited in writing, who shall be a 

 a resident in the county ; and in counties where there are no 

 agricultural societies the board of supervisors may appoint a 

 delegate who shall be a resident of the county. The president 

 or an accredited representative of the following named associa- 

 tions shall be entitled to membership in the said convention, to 

 wit: The State Horticultural Society, The State Dairy Associa- 

 tion, The Improved Stock Breeder's Association, The Swine 

 Breeders Association, and each farmers' institute organized 

 under the provisions of section sixteen hundred and seventy- 

 five (1675) of the Code. Provided, said farmers' institute 

 has been organized at least one (1) year, and has reported 

 to the State Secretary of Agriculture, not later than November 

 first, through its president and secretary or executive com- 

 mittee, that an institute has been held according to law, 

 the date thereof, the name and post office address of its 

 officers. They shall also furnish the State Secretary of Agri- 

 culture with a copy of program of each institute hereafter held 

 and one or more papers read before the institute, if papers are 

 read. No proxy given by any delegate elected by a farmers' 

 instidute shall be recognized by said convention," the State 

 Agricultural Convention convened in the rooms of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture at 9:00 o'clock A. m., with its president, 



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