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Show Meeting of Stock Improvement Societt. This society met at the City Hall on Monday night, pursuant to adjournment, the President, Vice-President, Vice-President, Secretary and a large attendance at-tendance of members of the society being be-ing present. After the m,ual opening exercises and preliminary business, the price current circular referred to clsewher in this morning's Herald, under the heading "Improvement of Stock," was read and approved. A short and interesting in-teresting article on horses, by Mr. Faut, chairman of committee on horses, was next read: after which Mr. S. H.. Putnam delivered a brief lu' instructive lecture on bee' culture, in which he explained the use of the Kidder patent hive, and the different means adopted to protect bees from the various adver.-e circumstances and depredations' from which they are liable lia-ble to suffer. Mr.' Putnam, at the close, was the recipient of a vote of thanks unanimously tendered him. A petition to the Mayor and Council of Salt Lake City, for encouragement pecuniary and moral to artificial lUh-euIture, was read, and a motion adopted that it be signed by the President Presi-dent and Secretary of the society and presented to the City Council at its next sitting. Mr. 1!. A . Morris was elected secretary secre-tary of the committee on homed stock, and Messrs. Charles Crimon Senr. and John Morgan were added to the same committee. Messrs. W. Woodruff, 11. J. Faust and John Pack Senr., spoke on the subject of purchasing blooded stock horses and horned stock and other matters connected therewith, after which the meeting adjourned for two weeks. |