REPORT. 



The annual meeting of the Maine Board of Agriculture was held 

 at the office of the Secretary at the State House, January 18, 1882. 

 Somerset county was not represented, the term of office of the old 

 member having expired, and the election of a member to fill the 

 place had not then been made. Subsequent action of the agricul- 

 tural societies of the count}- resulted in the election of A. R. Smiley, 

 of Skowhegan, for the place. Hancock count}' is still without 

 representation, from there being no active incorporated agricultural 

 society in the county, through which alone, according to the law, a 

 member can be elected. 



The meeting was called to order by the Secretary at 10 o'clock 

 A. M., and T. B. Hunter, the member from Franklin county, was 

 called to the chair. A committee on credentials was appointed, 

 consisting of A. R. Lincoln, Walter Balentine and A. O. IngersoU. 



This committee subsequently reported as duly authenticated new 

 members, elected to fill the vacancies occasioned by the expiration 

 of the terms of office of old members : 



S. L. HoLBROOK, Brunswick, Sagadahoc county. 



J. K. Hammond, Paris, Oxford county. 



W. W. Harris, Cumberland Centre, Cumberland county. 



The case of the member appearing from York county was referred 

 to the full Board which gave the seat to Horace Bod well, of Acton. 



The organization was effected in the election of 

 A. R. Lincoln, President. 



T. B. Hunter, Vice President. 



Committee on Pay Roll — E. W. Stetson, W. H. Pearson, A. O. 

 Inge-soU. 



Advisory Committee — A. R. Lincoln, M. C. Fernald, Geo. E. 

 Brackett. 



The member from Cumberland county moved and it was 



Voted, That the disposition of that part of the State stipend to 

 agricultural societies subject to tlxe disposition of the Board be 



