while we do not ask for or desire more than our just share of recognition, we feel that it is not only justice to ourselves but to other industries that our state and national governments should furnish it all the needed aid, financial and otherwise, that they are capable of doing-that the opportunities for research, experiments and markets, with the facilities of reaching these markets, be made broader and more complete. While we have been receiving this care of our governments, we urge upon our people the necessity of making more and more use of these advantages and opportunities at our hands, that the agriculturists may be peer and more than peer in intelligence, methods of business, and all the comforts of civilization; and, while we believe all these things to be true, just and right, we Resolve, First, that we appreciate and thank our state legislature for providing, and our Governor for making available, such liberal appropriations for the improvement and encouragement of agriculture. Second, that we appreciate and thank the national government for its help in advancing our interests. Third, that we respectfuly request each of these to not only continue this protecting care, but to extend it to its fullest limit. Fourth, that we request our national congress, and especially our members of it, to protect us from all of the threatening dangers that are just now attempting to assert themselves to the injury of our valued industries. Respectfuly submitted and signed by your committee, R. O. HINSDALE, D. L. SAMPSON, A member: I move you the adoption of the report of the committee. Mr. E. H. Cushman, of Lucas county: I move we adjourn. President Carpenter: Gentlemen, it affords me pleasure to express my gratitude for the magnificent attendance and the good attention which you have given in these meetings, and I want to thank you in a special manner for it. I hope you may return to your homes safely, and that the year 1905 will be the most prosperous year in the history of your lives. Thanking you all, I now declare this annual meeting of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture duly adjourned. (Applause.) Fifteenth Annual Report OF FARMERS' INSTITUTES HELD IN OHIO DURING THE WINTER OF 1904-1905. In presenting this, the Fifteenth Annual Report of Farmers' Institutes in Ohio, to the people of the state, it gives the Ohio Stat? Board of Agriculture much pleasure to say that the work has not fallen off in any particular during the institute season just closed. On the contrary, there has been a continued growth of interest shown all along the line, and in no season have reports from institute officers shown such a uniform condition of health and activity. Reports show no lack of willing workers, ready to deliver addresses, enter into discussions, and eager to co-operate with the speakers sent out by the State Board of Agriculture, in every way possible. Time has proved the wisdom of the State Legislature in lending liberal aid to this important work. The institute season just closed began on Monday, December 5, 1904, and ended February 25, 1905. There were scheduled two hundred and forty-three (243) institutes, covering every county in the state, and all were held. Many independent institutes were also held, of which thirty-eight reported to the Department of Agriculture. Reports and papers received from these independent institutes show that they are accomplishing much good, and the board wishes at this time to thank the local committees of and the participants in them for the excellent work they are doing. With the increased interest in institute work, it will doubtless transpire that independent institutes will be greatly multiplied from year to year, and it is hoped that such will be the case, for their work is too valuable to be lost. The State Farmers' Institute was held in Columbus, January 10 and II, 1905. This important gathering of institute workers from all portions. of the state was more successful and more largely attended than ever before. Important papers were presented, and notable speakers from this and from other states were present. It is to be regretted that all agr culturists cannot avail themselves of the good resulting from such a meeting, but the increased attendance from year to year shows that few. absent themselves from choice. Especial pains is taken in preparing the program of this institute, and the desire is to reach as many of the active agriculturists of the state as is possible. A full report of this institute precedes this report. In compliance with the law governing farmers' institutes in Ohio, there is published with this report a detailed account of moneys received and expended and institutes held during the season; also a report of independent institutes from which reports were received, and many papers read at institutes on subjects of interest to farmers and their families. Many valuable papers were necessarily returned to the writers, because of so many having been sent in on similar lines of thought. The Committee on Publication, while realizing the difficulty of making a choice amongst so much good material, has endeavored to cover as much ground as possible with the material offered. The Ohio State Board of Agriculture wishes to thank the State Legislature for its continued cordial support of this work; the press for its many courtesies and cheerful co-operation, and the citizens of Ohio, who, by their active and constant effort, have made the continuance of this grand work possible. THE OHIO STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. COLUMBUS OHIO, March 22, 1905. BY WELLS W. MILLER, Secretary. FINANCIAL STATEMENT. The following statement shows the receipts and disbursements of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture on account of Farmers' Institutes per capita, being the State Board's share of the six mills per capita, sections 3713-1 to 3713-6, inclusive, of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. RECEIPTS. Amounts collected from the counties on the basis of three mills per capita, being the State Board's share of the six mills per capita allowance provided by law for the maintenance and support of County Institute Societies in Ohio: |