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WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
lieved it had been the usual custom prior to the appointment of 
such committee to have the report of the treasurer for the current 
year read by the secretary. Secretary Field said that it had been 
the custom of the society to have the treasurer’s report read at this 
meeting during the absence of the committee to recommend nom¬ 
inees for officers of the society, but that since by order of the so¬ 
ciety such report had been published in detail and a copy sent to 
each life member, this annual reading had been dispensed with. 
The motion of Dr. VanNorstrand receiving a second was 
adopted, and the chair appointed the following committee: 
State at Large —Nelson Dewey, of Grant county. 
ls£ Congressional District —Clinton Babbitt, Rock county. 
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O. S. Willey, Dane county. 
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J. H. Warren, Green county. 
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H. L. Palmer, Milwaukee county. 
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Satterlee Clark, Dodge county. 
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A. H. YanNorstrand, Brown county. 
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Joseph S. Carr, Eau Claire county. 
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Carl Hceflinger, Marathon county. 
After the meeting of the committee, secretary Field stated that 
no provision had ever been made by the society for a distribution 
of the annual volume of Transactions to the life members, who 
were entitled to them. That he had taken the responsibility of 
sending packages by express to some of the cities where a number 
of the life members resided, at the expense of the society, there to 
be distributed by the person to whom sent, but that he did not 
feel authorized to send to all the members without some action of 
the society, as the expense would be large. 
Mr. Hurlbut moved that the secretary be requested to forward 
a copy of the Transactions to each life member by mail or express 
as he might think proper. E. W. Keyes said that a postal card 
could be sent to each life member notifying him that the volume 
was ready for distribution, and then if the person desired it, he 
could order it sent to him at his expense. After some further 
discussion upon the subject, the whole question was referred to 
the executive committee to be by them arranged as should seem 
best for the interest of the society and welfare of the individual 
members. 
