Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-12-15
ONE or TRE MOST SUCCESSFUL
MEETINGS EVER HELD BIZ
TEE ASSOCIATION.
IMPROVED STOCK BREEDERS.
The Second Annual Meeting Of THIS
ASSOCIATION in Session Col. =. J.
ss-y Spoke at the Court
House Wednesday Night.

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citation met In its sixth annual session
at 10 O'Clock Tuesday. The Arst
official act Of the session being TO elect
g temporary chairman In the person
of g. E. Axline, Of Oak Grove, who
aets in the place OF President Clifton
George, Of Lathrop, who was unavoid-
ably detained away. The minutes Of
the last annual meeting were read and
approved, and the attendance not being
as great as desired the regular pro-
gramme was postponed until after
noon and miscellaneous matters taken
up.
The matter of having g board Of
Judges to act, when called upon, as
judges OF swine at country fairs was
then taken up and freely discussed.
These judges had been appointed at
the last annual meeting, and the ef-
forts Of the association were brought
to bear on the secretaries Of the Diff
ferent fair associations to secure these
judges to act on swine exhibits, there
by securing competant judges OF stock
and insuring perfect Judgment and
fairness. The plan met with but little
success and some of the breeders pres
ent at this mornings meeting were in
favor OF dropping the matter, but after
some discussion it was decided by q
unanimous vote to continue the policy
during the succeeding year. In the
motion power was given the eexecutive
committee to make such revisions in
the list of appointed judges az they
may deem advisable.
The afternoon session began at 2:15
O'Clock by taking up the morning
programme. Joe r. Young, who was
TO have led a discussion on the "Care
and Management of Pigs for Best
Results" was not present and had
not sent in his paper, 90 ]. ". Boles
led in this, and was followed by N. II.
Gentry and others. There were
many good points brought up for con-
sideration.
"The Swine Breeders Outlook" was
the subject of very creditable paper
by Fred Lachner, OF Independence.
The discussion was led by W. N.
Briskey, followed by @. W. Null and
others.
Allen Park read paper on "Breed-
ers' Reputation and its Eject Upon
the Success or Failure Of His Bust
ness" This was intelligently dis
cussed by 81, O. sydnor and II. L.
Addy.
On Tuesday night, Dec. IS, the sixth
annual meeting Of the Missouri
Swine Breeders Association came
to a close after a most valuable,
pleasant and instructive meeting. It
is said by many to have been the best
and most instructive meeting the as
sociatiOn has yet enjoyed In its six
years Of living.
AS announced in the Evening LED
GER the formal opening Of the State
industrial Associations took place
Mayor Potts called the meeting to
order at 7;45 and Rev. A. 4. Wallace
conducted prayer. Mayor Potts then
introduced ]. V. Williams, whom he
had selected to delsver the address OF
welcome.
A business meeting was then enter
ed upon. A joint report of the secre-
tary and treasury showed s21 s5 on
hand. The auditing committee COM
posed of @. B. Carpenter, George
Falk, Of Richmond; J. O. Canada, of
Bayard, reported their approval of
the accounts of both.
The committee on resolutions COM
posed Of Allen Park, of Columbia; W.
&. Mosher, of Salisbury, and Geo. P.
Bellows, of Maryville, reported
Mr.. Bellows az follows:
To the citizens Of Mexico We wish |
to express our gratitude for the hos
pItslity and generous courtesies We
have received at your bands.
To the State Board of Agriculture
FOR the encouragement and substantial
aid you have rendered us BY publish
Ing our proceedings and otherwise
upholding and assisting us, we desire
to express our sincere gratitude.
To Secretary J. R. Rippey, bis
Miss Maude, and Miss
Willie, who have rendered us
most valuable service in the matter OF
gathering notes and compiling same
Tor the printed proceedings OF these
we and ourselves under
Increased and lasting obligations.
Their presence has been = stimulus
and our most cordial expressions OF
thanks are due them.
To the local press for the interest in
and publicity 1t may give our pro-
seedings, we will cay we are not I'M
of its infiaence and We unani-
mously extend it 3 vote Of thanks.
To the several hotel proprietors Of
Ibis city, who have extended us such
uniform courtesy, we are under many
Realizing and feeling keenly the
necessity of State Fair for Missouri,
which will be commemorate with nev
i've stock interests, We hereby reas-
,ert our demands In this direction and
pledge ourselves to the support and
cooperation of any JOSH measure to
'ecure legislative eDactments 10 that
md at the session OF our legislature
bout TO convene.
GEO P BELLOWS,
n. Z. MosHER,
ALLEN PARK,
COMMITTEES.