2 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



The same committee were authorized to receive votes for mes- 

 senger and A. H. Whitmore was declared elected. The organiza- 

 tion being completed the temporary chairman conducted the President 

 elect to the chair, who, on assuming the duties addressed the Board 

 as follows : 



Brother Members of the Maine Board of Agriculture : I sincerely 

 thank you for the honor conferred by electing me president of your 

 Board for the coming year ; and when I say honor I say it meaning 

 all that that word conveys, for if any body of men are engaged in 

 an honorable business those who are honestly trying to elevate and 

 improve the condition and business interests of the tillers of the soil 

 are surely that class. I firmW believe that the Maine Board of Agri- 

 culture is filling that mission to a marked degree. I believe the 

 succession of institutes held through the different counties can be 

 traced b}' the evidences of increased interest and the better prac- 

 tices which follow in almost every case. I believe money was never 

 better expended in promoting the cause of agriculture in our State. 

 Again thanking you for this mark of your confidence, I am ready to 

 proceed to the business of the Board. 



On motion, a committee on Pay Roll was appointed by the chair 

 as follows : 



F. S. Adams, i 



J. M. Deering, > Committee on Pay Roll. 



S. C. Watson, ) 



Also, the following advisory Committee was appointea . 

 S; W. Campbell, } ^^'^'^'^^^^ Committee. 



The member from Washington communicated to the Board an 

 invitation from His Excellency, Governor Burleigh, for the Board to 

 visit him in a body at the Executive Chamber at 12 o'clock. 



The invitation was accepted and Messrs. Campbell, Bal^tine 

 and Shaw were designaltfed as a committee to inform the Governor 

 that his invitation was accepted and that the Board w»uld visit him 

 at the time named. 



After returning from the call on the Governor the Board adjourned 

 to 2 o'clock in the afternoon. 



