CONTENTS. PAGE. Record Table Districts by Counties State Industrial Association Directory, 1889 Weather Record . Introductory Ten Years' Review of Indiana Crops and Statistics Proceedings February, Executive and State Fair Meetings. Proceedings Annual Meeting, 1889. . . Address by Hon. I. P. Gray, Governor of State Reports of Department Superintendents 6 8 9 10 16 17 63 70 95 88 Discussion-Value and Importance of County Fairs. 98 Trades and Profession Connected with Agriculture 122 Is there Enough Stock Kept on the Farms of Indiana to keep 117 How can the Soil be Most Profitably Cultivated? by Hon. Jno. "How to Secure better Results in Farming," by Hon. W. B. Seward. Table of Officers, Entries, Premiums, Receipts, etc., of County Societies MEMBERS OF THE INDIANA STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, 1888. 1st District-ROBERT MITCHELL, Princeton, Gibson County. Year. A TABLE Showing the Officers, Place and Receipts of Each Fair Held by the State Board of Agriculture. A. C. Jameson filled the office of Treasurer for 1873 to the 27th of August, when he resigned, and Carlos Dickson was appointed to fill the unexpired term. H. C. Meredith died July 5th, and L. B. Custer, Vice President, came in as President for the unexpired term. NOTE-In consequence of the loss of papers, incident to the military occupancy of the rooms of the State Board of Agriculture during the late war, and incomplete records preserved, the amount of premiums awarded at the several State fairs is necessarily incomplete. AGRICULTURAL DISTRICTS. The following order for Agricultural Districts was adopted by the Delegate Board at the Annual Meeting, 1883: That Article IV of the Constitution of the Indiana State Board of Agriculture be amended to read as follows: "Members are chosen for two years, one-half of whose term expire each year, to-wit: Those representing first, second, third, fourth, eighth, fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth districts, as herein constituted, expire at the annual meeting in 1884; and those representing the fifth, sixth, seventh, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth districts to be elected at this meeting, expire at the annual meeting to be held in January, 1885, the election to be by ballot." 1st District-Posey, Vanderburgh, Gibson, Warrick and Spencer counties. 2d District-Knox, Daviess, Martin, Pike, Dubois, Crawford and Perry counties. 3d District-Harrison, Washington, Orange, Floyd, Clark and Scott counties. 4th District-Jackson, Lawrence, Brown, Monroe, Greene, Owen and Sullivan counties. 5th District-Jefferson, Switzerland, Ohio, Dearborn, Franklin, Ripley and Jennings counties. 6th District-Bartholomew, Decatur, Rush, Fayette, Union and Wayne counties. 7th District-Madison, Hancock, Hamilton, Henry and Shelby counties. 8th District-Marion and Johnson counties. 9th District-Clay, Vigo, Parke, Vermillion and Fountain counties. 10th District-Putnam, Morgan, Hendricks, Montgomery and Boone counties. 11th District-Delaware, Randolph, Jay, Adams, Wells, Huntington and Blackford counties. 12th District-Carroll, White, Benton, Newton, Tippecanoe, Warren, Jasper and Pulaski counties. 13th District-Clinton, Tipton, Howard, Grant, Wabash and Whitley counties. 14th District-Elkhart, Kosciusko, Fulton, Cass and Miami counties. 15th District-St. Joseph, Marshall, Starke, Laporte, Porter and Lake counties. 16th District-Allen, Dekalb, Steuben, Lagrange and Noble counties. |