THE FIKST NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL CONGRESS. 21.1 



Each organization retired to a separate apartment where, 

 after deliberation, it elected a committee to act with that of 

 the other as a joint committee. On the part of the Congress 

 the following gentlemen were appointed : Major K. B. Hurt, 

 Jackson, Tennessee ; D. E. Beatty, Illinois ; T. W. Wood 

 ward, South Carolina; Suel Foster, Iowa; Governor H. W. 

 Foote, Mississippi ; 0. P. Whitcomb, Minnesota ; Professor 

 W. H. Jamison, Alabama; James B. Clark, Kentucky; E. 

 B. Whitman, Georgia; Lee K Shryock, Missouri; John W. 

 Foote, North Carolina. 



For the Agricultural Association the names of the com 

 mittee were as follows: H. M. McAllister, Pennsylvania; 

 E. W. West, Illinois; K. M. Patton, Alabama; 0. H. Jones, 

 Georgia ; John Scott, Iowa ; Gen. W. H. Jackson, Tennessee ; 

 A. B. Barrett, Missouri; H. Rawlings, Indiana; John Saul, 

 District of Columbia ; Commodore M. F. Maury, Virginia 

 and North Carolina; F. McArdle, Montana, and M. W. 

 Wood, Kentucky. 



Secretary Greene, of the Congress, being engaged in the 

 main hall, Jonathan Periam, of Chicago, was requested to 

 act with Secretary Killebrew, of Tennessee, for the joint 

 committee. The association then adjourned until the next 

 clay for the purpose of allowing the committee to deliberate. 

 Upon reassembling, the committee reported that they had 

 agreed upon a consolidation of the two organizations, under 

 the name of the National Agricultural Congress, and had 

 also agreed upon the basis of a constitution, which an 

 nouncement was received with hearty and reiterated ap 

 plause. 



On motion of Major Lee R. Shryock, it was resolved that 

 a committee of one from each State be appointed to report 

 permanent officers to the National Congress. The dele 

 gates from each State then conferred with each other, and 



