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Revision of premium list continued. 
Class 16 .—Grade cattle and working oxen. Amended by adding 
additional premiums to the list. 
Class 19 .—Second herd premiums, open to all breeds except 
short horns, was amended by substituting Devons, Ayreshires 
and Jerseys in place of u all breeds except short horns.” 
Class 20 .—American merinos, was revised by adding the fol¬ 
lowing premiums: 
Best exhibition sheep.Diploma. 
Best buck’s fleece, to be cleansed under direction of the superintendent of 
sheep-department. $15 00 
Second Best.. 10 00 
Class 23 .—Fat sheep. Stricken out. 
Class 24. —Swine. Was classed as large breeds, including Po¬ 
land Chinas, Chester-whites and others. 
Middle breeds, including Berkshire. Small breeds, including Es¬ 
sex, Suffolks and others. 
Adjourned to 2 P. M. 
Afternoon Session. 
Mr. C. H. Greenman, member of the State Horticultural Society, 
appeared before the board, and on behalf of said society asked the 
usual appropriation of $800 to pay premiums in the horticultural 
department of the state fair, and $100 to defray expenses in send¬ 
ing samples of fruit to the meeting of the National Pomological 
Society, which meets in Chicago in September, 1875. These prop¬ 
ositions were discussed at some length, and pending final action 
thereon, President Stickney, of the Horticultural Society, desired 
to make a brief statement of the financial condition of their soci¬ 
ety, which was unanimously granted. He said the financial condi¬ 
tion of the society was not hopeful. That their only source of in¬ 
come was from life-membership fees, and that this was small; that 
their necessary expenses had decreased the amount of funds in 
their treasury each year for some three years; that the society was 
desirous of making a creditable show of fruit at the exhibition of 
the National Pomological Society at Chicago in 1875, and that it 
could not do so without incurring an expenditure beyond their 
means to defray, and meet at the same time other incidental ex¬ 
penses, and he hoped that the agricultural board would appropri¬ 
ate to them the amount asked. 
