I am instructed by the committee to report this resolution. As chairman of that committee, I desire to offer an amendment, so that it will read:

Resolved, That the committee be continued, and that Professor S. W. Johnston be requested to prepare such farther report as in his judgment may be best fitted to set forth the character, value, and practicability of experiment stations; and the committee solicit he co-operation and assistance of the Department of Agriculture, for preparing, publish ng, and disseminating said report.

At this stage of the proceedings President Grant retired.

Mr. ALLEN, of New York.-As a member of that committee, I have a few words to say, in as brief a way as possible. It order to get to work we want a translation of this foreign work. Professor Johnston, located in New Haven, Connecticut, the seat of the university there, which has the agricultural school of that State, can do this work, and we propose that he be charged with this duty; and it will be done in this way with a less expense than almost in any other.

Mr. KLIPPART, of Ohio.-Are they aware how many experimental stations there are in Germany?

Mr. ALLEN, of New York.-Professor Johnston knows.

Mr. KLIPPART.—I know too. There are sixty-seven experimental stations in Germany and each station furnishes a volume annually; and they have been in existente from three to eighteen years. I believe that I have the bulk of them, and by the time we have all that matter printed and distributed we shall have a library.

Mr. ALLEN, of New York.-We propose to pick out that which is worth something and translate it.

Mr. KLIPPART.-That, then, will leave us to repeat the useless experiments. I hold that each State should select what she requires and do her own translating. No one is more anxious than myself for such translation, but the labor is too great for any one man to undertake.

Mr. CLARK, of Massachusetts.-The importance of the business which is now before us I think we shall all agree upon at once, and the importance of knowing what should be done is essential also. If we look back to the early days of chemistry, we find that the old alchemists, from the year 800 to 1800, worked alone, shut up in their laboratories, trying to find the philosopher's stone. Do not let us repeat that. If we let every State do it as the gentleman proposes. we shall have it done forty times instead of once.

Mr. KLIPPART.-Not at all. propose to divide up the work among the States. We don't care about rice and cotton experiments in Ohio, but we want wheat, corn, sorgho, and potato experiments, just such as Georgia and Alabama do not want.

Mr. CLARK, of Massachusetts.-It seems to me, sir, that we could not dispose of this whole question so well as just in accordance with that resolution; and I shall only be too thankful if Professor Johnston will assume this responsibility.

Mr. SWALLOW. I wish to suggest one amendment. The main work of this committee is not yet accomplished-the establishment of these experimental stations; and I think it would be proper, sir, that there should be a committee-man from each State. One man does not know the peculiarities of another State so well as one who lives in that State.

Mr. ALLEN, of New York.-It has been thought best to leave it to the States to carry out in their own way. We only propose a general plan to introduce the matter, not to conclude it.

Mr. SWALLOW-I suppose the committee called to their assistance a committee of one from each State, and why not put them all together on the committee?

Mr. NICHOLSON.-I know the committee were fully apprised of the great extent of the work done, and the length of time that it has been going on; and it was because they were impressed with this fact that they make this recommendation. And thus much on the point that there is too much work for one man to do. The French Government sent a commissioner to visit, examine and report upon these stations. I hold in my hand not a very large book, and yet it contains, clearly and succinctly stated, the main principles upon which the work was operating at that time, in 1867. Now I know, and I believe every gentleman of science here will indorse it, that the gentleman whom I have proposed to do this work is fully as competent to do it as the commissioner that the French Government sent there. He has, in addition, the benefit of the commissioner's labor, and all of these publications and men ready and willing to work with him, and when they make their report then Maine, and Louisiana and Florida will be prepared to know what errors have been committed and what facts have been proven by this Government by these long-continued operations, backed by money that we hardly dreamed of. It is a clear, simple work-a work that will produce just the very things that we want. We want light, and I think I have named the man who can so collect the rays through the lens that will illuminate the whole subject.

In consequence of there being no concert of action on the part of delegates representing State Boards of Agriculture from the various States, a minority, composed of college professors, monopolized the topics, as well as the discussion, and resolutions were passed soliciting aid for the colleges, whilst State Boards of Agriculture were placed upon their own muscle, and if they desired to succeed in "the struggle for existence," they must learn to be adepts in the use thereof.

Messrs. Buckingham, Warder, Jamison, Harmount, Richmond, Cannon and Sprague were present.

On motion, it was

Voted, That drills, harrows, corn-planters, road-ecrapers, potato-diggers and stumpextractors be placed under the charge of a new committee.

Messrs. B. F. Rees, W. B. McClung and D. T. Colvin were appointed said committee.

Voted, That cultivators of all kinds be placed in the charge of a second new committee. Messrs. G. P. De Yeo and Joshua Wright were appointed said committee.

(As the trial at Springfield was a part of the State Fair, the list of entries at said trial will be found on pages 108 to 112, the awards on pages 112 and 113, and the committee's report on pages 113 to 119 of the first part of this volume.)

MANSFIELD, August 1, 1873.

Executive Committee all present. Refreshment stands all sold. The Sandusky and other bands of music were employed.

The Secretary was authorized to issue the following circular to Presidents of County Agricultural Societies:

To the President.....

OHIO STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, SECRETARY'S OFFICE,
Columbus, November 25, 1872.
County Agricultural Society.

The Annual Convention of the State Board of Agriculture will take place on Wednesday, the 8th day of January next, at which time you are expected to be present, or to be represented by a duly authorized delegate. You will be expected to present the report of your Society for the current year, made in accordance with the law, in order to receive your certificate for the amount from the county treasury.

The terms of the following members of the State Board expire at said meeting, viz: James Buckingham, Zanesville; D. C. Richmond, Sandusky; L. B. Sprague, Springfield; Simpson Harmount, Canal Dover; John A. Warder, Cincinnati.

The following topics will be presented for discussion, and it is hoped that all the delegates will come prepared to participate in these discussions, viz:

1st. That organizations promotive of the agricultural interests shall be recognized in the State Constitution to be made in 1873.

2d. The construction of barns and outbuildings so as to be most convenient, and at the same time be most healthy for cattle and other domestic animals, and best to preserve the manure.

3d. The distribution of forest timbers in Ohio.

4th. Potatoes, their value as an article of food; culture, soil, varieties, and the value and production of new varieties.

5th. Artificial fish breeding.

Hon. George B. Loring, of Massachusetts, has been invited to deliver an address on the occasion. By order of the President, JOHN H. KLIPPART, Corresponding Secretary.

AGRICULTURAL ROOMS, STATE HOUSE,

Columbus, January 7, 1873.

Members of Board all present. The President appointed Messrs. Cannon, Richmond and Carlisle, committee on Treasurer's account, which was examined and reported on. (See page xvii.)

Messrs. Jamison, Warder and Sprague were appointed a committee to examine Executive Committee accounts; Messrs. Delano, Jamison and Cannon, to examine Recording Secretary's accounts; and Messrs. Delano, Sprague and Warder, Committee on Field Crops.

Mr. McMullen was the only competitor whose papers were made out according to rules and regulations, and to whom was awarded the premium on corn. (See page 148, 1st part.)

The list of commended articles was examined, and none found worthy of special premiums, but the entire list ordered to be published as commendatory of the articles, for which see pages 133-136, 1st part.

Report of Committee on Recording Secretary's accounts:

We, the Committee appointed to examine the accounts of the Recording Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture for the year 1872, find the accounts and vouchers to correspond and correctly kept. L G. DELANO, JAS. B. JAMISON, R. P. CANNON.

Report of Committee on Executive Committee accounts: We have carefully examined the accounts and vouchers of the for the past year, and report that we find the statement correct.

On motion, the Board adjourned sine die.

Executive Committee
JNO. A. WARDER,
L. B. SPRAGUE,
JAS. B. JAMISON.

J. H. KLIPPART, Corresponding Sec'y.

TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL CONVENTION

OF THE

OHIO STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

The Convention met in the Senate Chamber at 10 A. M., Wednesday, January 8, 1872, and was called to order by the President, James Buckingham, of Zanesville.

The roll was called by John H. Klippart, Secretary, and seventy-nine counties reported representatives in the Convention, as follows:

Delegates.

Hiram Hickox.....

Isaac Stanley..

J. Niswanger

D. V. Pearson
Fergus Anderson
Alex. Simpson
W. A. Humes...

A. R. Ludlow
J. L. Weaver

Frank Browning..

John Robinson..
Wm. Hanlon..

James Orr
S. D. Harris

Harrod Mills...

Edwin Phelps

F. P. Vergon...

C. C. Keech

A. J. Musser...

Leo Weltz....

J. M. Pugh

D. W. H. Howard..
Wm. Nash....

L. L. Reed....
Wm. McPherson
G. C. Lofland...
Theo. Wilson
A. P. Byal

Counties. Ashtabula.

.Athens.

..Belmont.

Brown.

.Butler.

. Carroll.

. Champaign. ...Clarke.

. Clermont. Clinton. ..Columbiana.

. Coshocton. ..Crawford. ..Cuyahoga.

.Darke.

Defiance.

..Delaware.
.Erie.

.Fairfield.

.... Fayette.

.. Franklin.
..Fulton.
..Gallia.
Geauga.
Greene.
.Guernsey.

Hamilton.

.Hancock.