REPORT. 



The Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Connecticut Board 

 of Agriculture was held at Hartford, Room 60, Capitol, 

 Wednesday, January 18th, at 10 a. m., Hon. E. H. Hyde, 

 Vice-President, in the chair. Present, Messrs. Hyde, Webb, 

 Barstow, Warner, Day, Goodrich, Bill, Hubbard, and Gold. 



The report of the Secretary was read and accepted. 



Messrs. Day, Goodrich, and Gold were appointed a com- 

 mittee on credentials. This committee reported John S. 

 Kirkham of Newington, as new member for Hartford County, 

 and Alexander Warner of Pomfret, as member for Wind- 

 ham County, and advised that the election of members from 

 Fairfield and Litchfield counties be referred back to tlie 

 agricultural societies in those counties. 



The report was accepted, and the committee discharged. 



Messrs. Day and Barstow were appointed a committee to 

 wait on the Governor and invite his attendance. 



Gov. Bigelow took the chair, and officers were chosen as 

 follows, Messrs. Webb and Warner, tellers : 



Governor Hobart B. Bigelow, President ex officio. 



E. H. Hyde, Stafford', Vice-President. 



T. S. Gold, West Cornwall, Secretary. 



N. Hart, West Cornwall, Treasurer. 



Prof. S. W. Johnson, New Haven, Chemist. 



Prof. W. H. Brewer, New Haven, Botanist. 



Prof. S. I. Smith, New Haven, Entomologist. 



P. M. Augur, Middlefield, Pomologist. 



m' o"r>('ij ' /Commissioners on Diseases of Domestic 

 T. S. Gold, ) . , 



TT T oj- i. \ Animals. 

 H. L. tetewart, ; 



J. M. Hubbard, 



James A. Bill, \ Auditors. 



A. Warner, 



