PROCEEDINGS—EXECUTIVE MEETINGS. 51 
Superintendent of Fruit and Flower Department —To be supplied by State 
Horticultural Society. 
Superintendent of Machinery Department —Rufus Cheney, vice-president. 
Superintendent Department of Manufactures —Saterlee Clark, vice-president. 
Superintendent Department of Fine Arts —J. 0. Eaton, member of the 
board. 
Superintendent of Natural History Department —I. A. Lapham, member ex- 
officio of the board. 
Ticket Accountant —D. H. McArthur. 
On raising the question, whether the policy of the board, as 
to the appointment of judges for the several classes of the ex¬ 
hibition, which had been adopted at the meeting of 1870, 
should be continued, there seemed to be a pretty general con¬ 
currence in the opinion that the selection of fewer judges, 
pledged to attend and devote themselves to the work of the so¬ 
ciety, had yielded quite as satisfactory results as the former 
method of appointing a full set for every class; and according¬ 
ly, it was again tried by common consent. 
The board then proceeded to a canvas of all portions of the 
state, with the view, first, of finding competent persons who would 
be likely to serve on the committees, and secondly, of giving 
them as fair and equal a distribution as possible in the various 
sections of the state; continuing in this work until such selec¬ 
tions had been made as seemed most judicious for each of the 
several groups of classes. 
The accounts of the, several members for expenses in attend¬ 
ing this meeting, having been audited, on motion, the board 
adjourned sine die. 
Plankinton House, 
Milwaukee, Monday, September 25,1871. 
The executive board of the Wisconsin State Agricultural 
Society met in the elegant office generously prepared for them 
by Mr. J. P. C. Cottrill, propietor of the Plankinton House, 
at seven o’clock P. M. 
Present—Messrs. B. R. Hinkley, president; H. Ludington, 
Wm. R Taylor, Rufus Cheney, Eli Stilson, Saterlee Clark, 
N. S. Greene, N. D. Fratt, C. H. Williams, J. 0. Eaton, C. L. 
Martin, J. H. Warren, .John L. Mitchell, W. W. Field and J. 
W. Hoyt 
