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this state on a reasonable business basis, so that the men who are 

 doing the work up there at the institutions that are bringing more 

 honor and more glory to the state of Iowa than all else combined 

 are adequately remunerated. 



Mr. Long of Clarke county: There is one section of the reso- 

 lutions that so far has not been commented upon, that I believe a 

 great many people do not realize the importance of the resolutions 

 coming from this organization. That is the bureau of publicity. 

 Every state is doing a great deal on that. I am in the newspaper 

 business and every week there is thrown into our waste basket 

 thirty or forty columns written by people of Iowa boosting a state 

 which has capitalized its climate. It seems to me with the Agricul- 

 tural Society taking the stand it does, that a bureau of publicity 

 should be provided for by the next legislature by unanimous vote. 

 There is no reason that Iowa should see the size of emigration going 

 south and east and west and north from us, and every other state 

 in the country increasing in population while we are going back- 

 ward, not because of any bad results but on account of our pros- 

 perity and on account of the fact that we have not the people in 

 this country to do the work the w 7 ay we want it done. I have spok- 

 en on this subject once or twice, and I am in favor of placing the 

 bureau of publicity under the management of the present secretary 

 of the Iow T a State .Department of Agriculture, because I consider 

 that John Simpson has done more through his little bulletin to 

 inspire pride in the people of Iowa than any other man in the state. 

 I hope to see the bureau of publicity provided for and placed in 

 charge of the State Department of Agriculture. 



On motion the resolutions as offered were unanimously adopted. 



The President then announced that the next order of business 

 would be the election of the following members of the State Board 

 of Agriculture : president, vice-president, and members from the 

 following districts : Second District, Fourth District, Sixth Dis- 

 trict. Eighth District, Ninth District (to fill vacancy), and Tenth 

 District. 



Vice President Brown in the chair. 



Mr. B. F. Beswick of Pocahontas county placed in nomination 

 for president of the State Board of Agriculture, Mr. C. E. Cameron, 

 to succeed himself, and moved if there were no other nominations 

 that the secretary be instructed to cast the entire vote of the con- 

 vention for Mr. Cameron. The motion was duly seconded and 

 adopted. The vote was so cast by the secretary and Vice President 



