INDIANA WOOL GROWERS' ASSOCIATION. 



PKOCEEDINGS OF JANUAEY MEETING, 1885. 



The annual meeting of the Indiana Wool Growers' Association was held in the 

 rooms of the State Board of Agriculture, in the city of Indianapolis, .January 29, 

 1885, at 1:30 o'clock p. m. 



In the absence of President C. T. Nixon, Vice President Hon. Fielding Beeler 

 took the chair. 



Mr. W. J. Carter, of Weatfield, Ind., was appointed to make a stenographic re- 

 port of the proceedings for publication. 



Mr. Cal. Darnell called the attention of the Association to the importance of 

 a more stringent dog law, and suggested that a commitlee be api^ointed to confer 

 with the Legislative Committee on Agriculture regarding the passage of a dog law. 

 The bill proposed by the Legislative Committe makes it a county fund instead of 

 a township fund, claims must be proved before the County Coram issioner^, the 

 Auditor draws an order on the County Treasurer, who i;s to pay the money. After 

 the claims for sheep killed are all paid for, instead of turning any surplus money 

 to the School Fund it is to be divided, one-half going to the Wool Growers and the 

 other half to the School Fund. I move, sir, that a committee be appointed lo con- 

 fer with this Legislative Committee on this subject. 



The motion was adopteJ and the following committee was appointed, viz: Dun- 

 gan. Nelson, Harkness, Farquhar, Henley, Levering and Howland. 



Messrs. Mitchell and Howland were appointed to extend an invitation to Gov. 

 Gray to meet the members of the Association sometime during the session. 



Mr. Duuffan. I understand our records are lost, with all the previous proceed- 

 ings of our meetings, and we are without any by-laws and constitution. It is nec- 

 essary for us to do something towards making a new record. 



Sea-etary Farquhar. Mr. President, on my return home from our annual meet- 

 ing last winter, these records are supposed to have fallen from my pocket during 

 the darkness and lost. I have made dilligent search and advertised for them in 

 the papers, but never secured their recovery. 



