NINTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART IV 159 
The Committee on Resolutions made the following report which, 
on motion of INIr. Clark of Marshall county, was adopted: 
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS. 
STATE AGRICULTURAL CONVENTION. 
Dec. 9, 1908. 
Your Committee on Resolutions submit the following report: 
We congratulate the people of Iowa on the excellent management of 
its Agricultural Department and commend the officials for the unpar- 
alleled success of the 1908 fair. 
The extensive exhibits of fruit and corn at this meeting fully main- 
tains the high standard heretofore reached and demonstrates the wisdom 
of the department in its work along educational Imes. 
We extend our hearty thanks to the faculty of the college at Ames for 
the assistance given the farmers of the state in the Short Course meet- 
ings, farmers' institutes and other organizations working for the ad- 
vancement of the farming and stock breeding industries of the state. 
Our thanks are due and hereby tendered to the Thirty-second General 
Assembly and especially to Senator B. W. Newberry for the passage of 
the pure food bill, stock food, agricultural seed bills, pure paint, drug 
and twine laws; also for the interest manifested in the investigation of 
bovine tuberculosis and noxious weeds. 
We heartily commend the recommendations of Secretary Simpson for 
a larger support fund and would ask the Thirty-third General Assembly 
to so amend existing laws that the Department of Agriculture may be en- 
abled to issue bulletins from time to time containing such information 
as would be of interest to agricultural, stock raising, dairying, and other 
allied interests of the state. We would urge upon the legislature the 
amending of existing laws so that the statistics on live stock and other 
information relative to agriculture, agricultural products, acreage and 
labor, by townships, can be collected and distributed annually through 
the Department of Agriculture. 
We extend our thanks to Hon. A. P. Sandles of Ohio for his interest- 
ing and instructive address before the convention. 
The present accommodations for the proper care and display of 
stock and farm products at the State Fair are inadequate and require 
enlargement in nearly every department. Therefore be it. 
Resolved, That it is the sense of this convention that liberal appro- 
priations should be made by the Thirty-third General Assembly for the 
erection of an amphitheater, a manufacturers' and liberal arts build- 
ing, a dairy and horticultural hall, and for such other buildings as the 
society may require. 
Resolved, That we commend the efforts being made to stamp out bovine 
tuberculosis and recommend that actual and thorough work be continued 
along the lines already laid down. 
Respectfully submitted, (Signed) W. M. Clark, 
C. P. Sauebman, 
W. P. George. 
Committee on Resolutions. 
