ine IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
The Committee on Credentials submitted the following report 
and on motion of Mr. Grisell of Guthrie county the report was 
adopted and the committee discharged : 
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON CREDENTIALS. 
Your committee on Credentials beg leave to report as follows: 
Section 1657-d of the Code Supplement sets forth what organizations 
are entitled to representation and voice in the annual state agricultural 
convention as follows: 
"There shall be held in the capitol on the second Wednesday of Decem- 
ber, 1900, and annually thereafter, the state agricultural convention, com- 
posed of the state board of agriculture, together with the president or 
secretary of each county or district society entitled to receive aid from 
the state, or regularly elected delegate therefrom accredited in writing, 
who shall be a resident of the county; and in counties where there are 
no agricultural societies the board of supervisors may appoint a dele- 
gate who shall be a resident of the county. The president or an accred- 
ited representative of the following named associations shall be entitled 
to membership in said convention, to-wit: the state horticultural society, 
the dairy association, the improved stock breeders' association, the swine 
breeders' association, and each farmers' institute organized under the 
provisions of section 1675 of the Code. Provided, said farmers' institute 
has been organized at least one. year, and has reported to the state secre- 
tary of agriculture not later than November 1st, through its president and 
secretary or executive committee, that an institute was held according 
to law, the date thereof, the names and post office addresses of its officers. 
They shall also furnish the state secretary of agriculture with a copy 
of program of each institute hereafter held and one or more papers read 
before such institute, if papers are read. On all questions arising for a 
determination by the convention including the election of members of the 
board, each member present shall be entitled to but one vote, and no 
proxies shall be recognized by the convention." 
Your committee finds that eighty-four delegates have presented creden- 
tials and are entitled to a vote in the proceedings of this convention. 
Credentials have been presented from the following named organizations 
which have not complied with the law as set forth in the section just 
read in regard to filing report with the secretary of agriculture and are 
therefore not entitled to representation at this meeting: 
Warren County Farmers' Institute; 
Monroe County Farmers' Institute; 
Boone County Farmers' Institute; 
Cerro Gordo County Farmers' Institute. 
