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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE— Continued. 



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Reorganization of New Board 37 



J. E. McDonald, Teuipoiary Chairman 37 



Jolin L. Tliompson Elected President 37 



Mason J. Niblack Elected Vice-President 38 



J. N. Lagrange Elected Treasurer 38 



Charles Downing Elected Secretary 38 



E. H. Peed Elected General Superintendent 38 



Secretary Instructed to Negotiate for Sousa's Band 39 



Executive Committee Appointed 40 



Department Superintendents Named 41 



Indianapolis Racing Association Make Application for Lease. . 42 



Contract with Indianapolis Racing Association 43 



Committee Appointed to Revise Premium List 45 



Contract with Indianapolis Racing Association Ratified 48 



Committee on Fees and Salaries 49 



D. B. Winchester Appointed Custodian of Grounds 49 



Charles Downing Certifies to Governor for Reappointment as 



Trustee of Purdue University 54 



Improvement of Poultry Grounds and Coops Ordered 51 



Duplicating of Prizes on Cattle Ordered 54 



Four Stakes Opened for Trotting and Pacing 55 



Indiana National Guard Granted Use of Grounds 57 



Address by John Harrison Skinner 59 



STATEMENT OF FAIR 1902.*. 25 



STATE ENTOMOLOGIST— REPORT OF— 



Nursery Inspection : 322 



Scale-Infected Localities 322 



Map Showing Counties witli Scale 323 



Transportation Companies 326 



Investigating Seventeen-Year Locust 32G 



Map Showing Counties in Which Seventeen-Year Locusts Ap- 

 peared in 1902 32'^ 



Tabular Statement Concerning Seventeen-Year Locusts 328 



The Hessian Fly 332 



Map Showing Counties Affected with Hessian Fly 332 



Map Showing Counties Affected with Hessian Fly in 1902 333 



Financial Statement 334 



List of Indiana Nurserymen ."55 



Report of 1903 444 



Laws in Other States ... . ., 445 



