PART IV 



PROCEEDINGS 



STATE AGRICULTURAL CONVENTION. 

 December 11, 1907. 



The State Agricultural Convention convened in the rooms of 

 the Department of Agriculture at 9 :30 o'clock Wednesday morning, 

 December 11th, with President Cameron in the chair. 



The meeting was called to order and the president appointed the 

 following committees : 



Committee on Credentials: L. H. Pickard of Shelby county, E. J. 

 Curtin of Winneshiek county and T. W. Purcell of Franklin county. 



Committee on Resolutions : C. W. Hoffman of Decatur county, 

 H. S. Martin of Hardin county and A. L. Denio of Buena Vista 

 county. 



Vice-President Brown was called to the chair and the president 

 made the following address : 



PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



C. E. CA3IEK0N, ALTA, lA. 



We are again assembled in annual convention in the interests of 

 the Department of Agriculture of Iowa. It becomes our business at 

 this meeting to review the work of the last year and to prepare for 

 the work for the year to come. In reviewing the work of the last year 

 I will leave that largely with our able and efficient secretary, Mr. 

 Simpson, as he has the data of all the business for the year in his 

 report. 



I can but feel proud as a member of the directory of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture for the great fair of 1907. The Iowa State Fair 

 is the greatest agricultural fair held in the world, speaking from a 

 strictly agricultural standpoint. There are fairs that have larger gate 

 receipt; there are fairs that have larger gross receipts, but in exhibits 

 that come directly from the farm, Iowa is in a class by herself; and of all 

 the fairs I have visited there is none where the people are more interested 

 in the products of the farm than the people of Iowa. 



