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which must not fall below five dollars a club. The 

 membership roll of the State Association in 1920 

 names sixty-three local clubs chiefly in the east- 

 central and southeastern counties of the southern 

 peninsula (Clinton and Shiawassee counties lead- 

 ing). The aggregate reported membership of the 

 local clubs amounted to 3,178. It was expected that 

 the State Association would serve as a clearing-house 

 for ideas related to agriculture and would enable the 

 united membership to promote its interests more ef- 

 fectively. A glimpse of the subjects in which the 

 federation is concerned is obtained in the resolutions 

 adopted at its annual meeting of 1920. These in- 

 clude a recommendation of increased State aid for 

 rural schools and the consolidation of rural school 

 districts; approbation of the Michigan State police, 

 particularly for its activity in enforcing the dog- 

 license law, control of automobile traffic on the pub- 

 lic highways and the enforcement of the prohibition 

 law, and the general protection of property; and a 

 recommendation that the force be continued and ade- 

 quately supported; and a similar resolution in re- 

 gard to the Livestock Sanitary Commission was 

 adopted. Ample legislative appropriations for the 

 Michigan Agricultural Coll<?ge were commended, 

 while the project of a State soil survey was en- 

 dorsed. Similar action was taken in regard to the 

 State Department of Health and the Anti-Tubercu- 

 losis Society. On the other hand, the State's box- 

 ing law, which legalizes "the disgraceful, demoral- 

 izing and degrading business of boxing," was as- 



