i 22 Wisconsin Stats Agricultural society. 
Hon. Geo. B. Smith said that every member had no doubt re¬ 
ceived a copy of the report, had examined it in detail if they de¬ 
sired to do so, and moved that the usual reading be dispensed 
with, which was unanimously agreed to. 
The committee appointed to recommend nominees for officers, 
reported as follows : 
President. —Wm. R. Taylor, Dane county. 
Vice Presidents. —1st Congressional District, Rufus Cheney, 
Walworth county; 2d Congressional District, Charles H. Williams, 
Sauk county; 3d Congressional District, J. H. Warren, Green 
county; 4th Congressional District, John L. Mitchell, Milwaukee; 
6th Congressional District, Saterlee Clark, Dodge county; 6th 
Congressional District, Eli Stilson, Winnebago county; 7th Con¬ 
gressional District, J. G. Thorp, Eau Claire county; 8th Congres¬ 
sional District, John T. Kingston, Juneau county. 
Secretary.— W. W. Field, Grant county. 
Treasurer .—Harrison Ludington, Milwaukee. 
Additional Members of the Executive Committee. —Dr. C. L. Mar¬ 
tin, Janesville. N. S. Greene, Milford; J. O. Eaton, Milwaukee; 
N. D. Fratt, Racine; Kelson Dewey, Cassville ; T. C. Douseman, 
Waterville; L. B. Yilas, Madison. 
E. Hurlburt, of Waukesha, moved that the report of the com¬ 
mittee be adopted. 
Mr. Ludington said that before the motion was put, he desired 
to thank the committee for again placing him in nomination for 
the office of treasurer, but that the duties for the last two years 
had largely interfered with other important business, and that he 
could not longer serve the society in that capacity. 
Several members of the society expressed a strong desire that 
Mr. L. would accept the office, as the deep interest ever manifested 
by him in the welfare of the society, since his connection with it, 
had made his services of great value. 
Mr. Ludington still declining, on motion, the name of F. J. 
Blair, of Milwaukee, was substituted, and the motion of Mr. 
Hurlburt was unanimously adopted. 
President Hmkley then declared the several nominees duly 
elected to the offices for which they had been respectively named 
by the committee. 
