for analyses, and any surplus arising from license permits shall be placed to the credit of the agricultural fund. SEC. 4446f. [Persons selling without complying with foregoing provisions, how punished.] Any person or party who shall offer or expose for sale, or sell, any commercial fertilizer without complying with the provisions of Sections 4446a, 4446b and 4446c of the Revised Statutes, or shall permit an analysis to be attached to any package of such fertilizer, stating that it contains a larger percentage of any one or more of the constituents named in said Section 4446a than it really does contain, shall be subject to a penalty of not less than two hundred dollars for the first offense, and not less than five hundred dollars for 'every subsequent offense, to be recovered in a civil action, and the -offender, in all cases, shall also be liable for damages sustained by the purchasers of such fertilizers; provided, however, that a deficiency of one per cent. of the nitrogen, potash or phosphoric acid claimed to be contained, shall not be considered as evidence of fraudulent intent. SEC. 4446g. [Where suits to recover penalties may be brought.] Suit may be brought for the recovery of penalties under the provisions of this act in the court of common pleas of the county where the fertilizer was offered for sale, or sold, or where it was manufactured; and all penalties so recovered, shall be paid into the State treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund. SEC. 4446h. [Secretary of State Board of Agriculture may select samples to be analyzed.] The Secretary of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, or any person by him deputized, is hereby empowered to select from any package of commercial fertilizer exposed for sale in any county in Ohio, a quantity not exceeding two pounds, which quantity shall be for analysis to compare with sample deposited with said Secretary, as provided in Section Two [4446b] of this act, and with the printed certificate found on the given package found on sale. SEC. 44461. [All suits under this act to be brought by Secretary State Board of Agriculture.] All suits for the recovery of fines under the provisions of this act, shall be brought by the Secretary of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, in the name of the State of Ohio. SEC. 7002. [Fine and imprisonment for violation of provisions of fertilizer law.] Whoever sells, exposes for sale, or offers for sale any commercial fertilizer without having complied with the provisions of Sections 4446a, 4446b and 4446c of the Revised Statutes shall be fined in any sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both, and said fine or imprisonment, or both, shall not be a bar to the recovery of the civil penalty provided for by Sections 4446f and 4446g of the Revised Statutes. PROCEEDINGS OF THE . FIFTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE Ohio State Board of Agriculture, Held in the Senate Chamber, State House, Columbus, Ohio, The Meeting was called to order at 10 o'clock, A. M., by Hon. C. Bordwell, President of the Board, who announced that the session would be opened with prayer by the Rev. C. L. Winget, of Columbus, Ohio. Rev. C. L. Winget then invoked the Divine blessing in the following words: Oh Thou, our God, who art over all, God blest forever, our Father, our Friend and Helper, we come into Thy presence this morning with praise upon our lips, with gratitude in our hearts. Thy loving kindness is wonderful. Thy grace is matchless. The year that hath just closed hath witnessed great mercy, great providence. Thou hast been mindful of Thy creature, man. Thou art continually planning for his happiness, for his peace, for his well being. We thank Thee, our Father, as we look down the way we have come for the year past, and recognize the fact that goodness and mercy have been our constant companions. At no time have we been left alone. At no time hast Thou veiled Thy face. Thou hast enriched our graneries. Thou hast bountifully supplied all our physical wants. Thou hast been more gracious, our Father, than we have been faithful. Thou hast given great abundance from the soil. Thou hast given the sunshine. Thou hast given the shower, but we have not sown abundantly. And yet Thou hast given us a great increase. We thank Thee for the many blessings bestowed upon us in the year just past. We thank Thee because Thou hast crowned the enterprize of the year with great success and we pray Thee, our Father, as we come together today as Thy servants and Thy workers that Thou make our hearts go out to Thee in gratitude and make Thy servants who meet on this day go away from here with increased zeal, with renewed vigor and with a better comprehension and understanding of the things we should know, so that the year to come shall be improved, wherein the year past has been neglected. God help the husbandmen of this country to feel that they are the main stay of the country. Help them to know that they are the beginning of all prosperity. Help them to realize, we pray Thee, that they hold the most important place, standing nearest to Thee in preparing for the things of men. Our Father, I pray Thee to help us while we are laboring for those physical conditions that are to aid us, to make us strong that we may not forget the higher conditions of life, the more important things which move our hearts for a closer fellowship and a better understanding of God and His ways. We pray Thee, our Father, to bless our land and our country. We thank Thee, Holy Father, tlrat amid the uncertainties, anxieties and toils of the past year Thou hast been ever watchful of our interests and hast directed matters as we trust for Thy glory and for the good of man. We pray that Thou be with the Chief Executive of this great nation. Give him wisdom in the performance of his duties and give him courage to follow out the mandates of Thy will, and we pray Thee, our Father, that he may go forth, having set up his banner in Thy name, fearlessly, zealously and earnestly, doing that which shall be the greatest good for the greatest number. We pray Thy blessing upon this Commonwealth, and the Chief Executive of this great State, and that Thou may so lead him in the affairs of his office that he may discharge his duties to the end that the great Ohio State shall stand at the front always, as it stands at the front now in the enterprises of the day. Our Father, bless this session of Thy servants who are here. Help each one in his place to remember that it is for more than a day they are deliberating, that it is for time, and may all that they do be for the weal of the interests that they have at heart. And now, dear Lord, we will leave ourselves with all our wants in Thy hands. We ask for Thy protecting help. We ask for wisdom and strength, that our lives shall be of such character that at the end of the day we may receive the blessing "well done" from our Father who art in Heaven, and to Thy great name which is worthy we will render all praise and glory and honor through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. President Bordwell: Before proceeding with the call of counties and recording the names of delegates, I will appoint a committee to wait upon Governor Bushnell and escort him to this hall, and while the committee is performing that duty we will proceed with the regular business of the Meeting. I will name as members of the committee to wait upon the Governor, Mr. S. A. Baldwin, of Muskingum County, Mr. D. L. Sampson, of Hamilton County, and Mr. W. F. Roudebush of Clermont County. I will next appoint the Committee on Credentials as follows: Mr. C. H. Ganson, Champaign County, Mr. W. F. Tulleys, Ross County, and Mr. George W. Carey, Warren County. At the conclusion of the appointment of committees, Hon. Asa S. Bushnell, Governor of Ohio, was escorted to the President's Chair and introduced by President Bordwell, as follows: Gentlemen, I now have the pleasure of introducing to you our Governor, Hon. Asa S. Bushnell, who will welcome you to our midst (applause). Hon. Asa S. Bushnell then said: Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture: I have been asked to come up here for a moment and give you greeting and bid you welcome, and I do it with the most profound pleasure. I am glad to welcome you here as citizens of the greatest Commonwealth in the nation (applause), and I am glad to welcome you as representatives of the greatest industry in the nation-agriculture (renewed applause). The year just past has been a most eventful one, as much so perhaps as any, I might say, in the last third of a century. The earth has given her increase in great abundance and our armies on land and sea have been victorious (continued applause). None have been more ready to give support to the nation on the fields of battle than the agriculturists, of the country (cheering). Those who responded most promptly were the young men from the rural districts and the representatives of agriculture, and it seems to me as though this were a yearthe one just past-of which it might be said, as was said by a neighbor on the death of the wife of one of his acquaintances. When met by a friend and asked what had occurred in the neighborhood, he said, "Why, John Smith's wife died a few days ago." The next inquiry was, "Of what complaint?" He said, "Why, no complaint; everybody was satisfied." (Laughter.) It seems to me that the year just past is one in which we can also say, "Everybody is satisfied." Certainly, everybody should be satisfied. The fields have given us most abundant crops and we have had splendid results from all our endeavors until now we have, you might say, a new crop in the shape of some islands that we hardly know what to do with. So everything has yielded its increase and I congratulate you, and the people of our state and of the country on the good promise for the coming year, the last year in the century. As we look forward to this, now the last year of the nineteenth century, let us resolve to make it the grandest year of the century. If we have done anything that has given pain to others, let us resolve that we will this year endeavor to do that which will give them pleasure. Let us have peace and harmony and with every effort we can make, endeavor to bring about even greater prosperity, greater abundance of good feeling and good fellowship and greater productions from the farm and the factory and all the other industries we are blest with in this country. I am not going to detain you from your deliberations. I welcome you here to the Capital City. I hope the deliberations of your meeting, will be pleasant and of great profit to the grand industry which you represent. It is always a pleasure to me to meet with the farmers and those that represent agriculture. Some of the happiest years of my life-younger years-were spent upon the farm. I left the farm thinking I might be more useful in other callings. I said this on an occasion somewhat simliar to this a year or two ago and a friend who followed me in my remarks said that he left the farm "because the farmer wanted me to." But I left thinking I might be useful in other walks of life. I don't know whether I might have made a success in farming or not, but I can say it is a splendid calling. It is the most important industry in our country and those of you who represent it certainly can point with pride to your calling and to your employment. I thank you very much for the privilege of being with you and thus addressing you. It has been a pleasure for me to come here and see you for a moment and look you in the face. I wish for you all good health and abundant prosperity, and hope that we shall go on in our country to greater victories than those of the past year. There is one thing that we may be certain of, that the farmer, the agriculturist will see to it that good care is taken of the country we have and we can always depend upon him for loyalty in support of the government in regard to our future possessions and any expansion there may be in the territory of the United States. Gentlemen, I thank you and bid you good morning. (Applause.) Hon. C. Bordwell, President of the State Board of Agriculture, then delivered the following, his annual address: Gentlemen of the State Board of Agriculture: I but voice your congratulations, that this fifty-fourth annual gathering of delegates, finds us as agriculturists and as a people, in more prosperous condition than we have been for a few years past, and I sincerely trust that the encouragement we find at the close of the work of the year 1898, is but an omen of increased prosperity and a condition of success for agriculture and all the industries, during the year just ushered in and for future years as well. The year past, with its seed times and harvests, has brought to the farmers of Ohio abundantly of nearly all the crops produced, and, while prices have not been high, there has been demand for everything produced and the farmer has been able to exchange his crops and stock for cash and with a profit sufficient for some surplus to apply on the debts he was forced to contract in less prosperous times of the past. The Ohio farmer occupies a position of prominence so far as improved methods and intelligent culture are concerned, and he is giving attention to the best live stock for bettering his herds and feeding for the markets. To Ohio the people of the nation look with expectancy for the best of everything, and the pride of the state and the energy of her citizenship prompts us to respond in agriculture, in manufactures, in trade, in domestic affairs, in education, in government, and in men capable and ready to assume honorable leadership in important and trying events, in whatever position and wherever occurring, affecting us as a people and as a nation. The year past has been an eventful one, in many respects, and more serious to some of us whose sons were called upon to defend the honor of our flag and our good name. Ohio as usual distinguished herself, and peace reigns, and she will now do her share toward feeding and clothing those occupying our newly acquired possessions or trusts and supplying them with the implements of agriculture and other manufactures in keeping with enlightenment and the Ohio idea. To aid us in progress we have the best schools and .colleges and our sons and daughters are among the brightest in search of knowledge. We have farmers' organizations guarding the interests and seeking the advancement of the great brotherhood of farmers, while throughout the state, at our very doors, are conducted farmers' institutes that figure largely in elevating the profession and educating along the proper lines for developing the greatest possible success in all our work. We are here today, fresh from our farm work and ripe in the experiences of the year, and it will be strange indeed, if, after an interchange of these experiences and the discussion of vital subjects affecting us as farmers, we do not return to our farms and our constituents, better prepared for the work of the present year and better able to cope with the problems that confront us. I know you will think it kind in me to spare you the infliction of a long address, so I will proceed briefly with a report of some of the most important work of the State Board of Agriculture during the year. The operation of the State Fair and Industrial Exposition, is one of the important divisions of the Board's work, and toward it is directed that earnest attention required to make a leader and a school of object lessons, wherein the lessons taught profit us as farmers and manufacturers, and benefit the state at large, by creating both supply and demand, and increasing wealth in all the avenues of industrial pursuits. Ohio, with her diversified farming and manufacturing interests, demands, and is worthy of, the best fair grounds and the most commodious buildings and conveniences for exhibiting our products, and these, thanks to wise legislation and patriotic legislators, we are coming into possession of. The last General |