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Mr. Hartshorn, for the committee to prepare resolutions 

 on the death of Hon. Velorous Taft of West Upton, reported 

 the following: : — 



Resolved, That the State Board of Agriculture has lost 

 by death several of its most influential members within the 

 last few years. We remember with sadness the death of 

 Wilder, Nichols, Moore, Lynde and Slade. It is with 

 sorrow that we are again called to notice the death of one 

 of our members. The Hon. Velorous Taft of West Upton 

 died June 23, 1890. He had been an active member of this 

 Board for many years. He was a man who not only had 

 the interest of this Board at heart, but was foremost in 

 advocating all progressive measures, whether relating to 

 agriculture or to state or national affairs. His work was a 

 life work ;* he did not relinquish it until called to higher 

 fields by the great Master of the universe. We shall no 

 longer hear his genial voice, or feel the hearty grasp of his 

 hand that was prompted by a warm heart, or see his portly 

 form again in our midst. But the good works of an honest 



