286 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Dr. Wakefield. As we are about to leave, I ask the 

 privilege of submitting this resolution : — 



Resolved, That the thanks of the Board of Agriculture be hereby 

 tendered to the Hingham Agricultural Society, and to the citizens of 

 Hingham and its vicinity, for the generous entertainment afforded us, 

 and for the interest they have shown in the promotion of this great 

 national industry. 



This resolution was adopted unanimously. 



Mr. Whitaker. I am going to make another motion. 

 Not being a member of the State Board, I want to move, on 

 behalf of those of us who have attended these meetings, a 

 vote of tlianks to the citizens of Hingham for the kind man- 

 ner in wliich they have treated us ; for I do not know that 

 they have made any distinction between the members of the 

 Board and those of us who have come in who do not belong 

 to the Board. 



Another thing : I want to bear my testimony to the 

 utility of the State Board of Agriculture of Massachusetts, 

 not only in conducting these discussions, and in providing 

 lectures on various subjects, as they hav6 done, but also 

 for giving their reports to the public at large. If there is 

 any person present who has passed these publications over, 

 simply because they came from the State, I would say that 

 I have not a single volume in my library that I think is of 

 as high value as any one of the volumes published by the 

 Board of Agriculture ; and I would most earnestly request 

 every one to do what he can to have those volumes read and 

 studied. I believe that any one who reads them carefully 

 will find that he has obtained as much information on the 

 subject of general agriculture as he will from any works that 

 are published. 



The question was put on Mr. Whitaker's motion, and it 

 was unanimously carried. 



The Board then, on motion of Mr. Smith of Colrain, 

 adjourned sine die. 



