290 BOAED OF AGRICULTURE. 



Voted, That the Museum of Comparative Zoology has 

 secured a place iu the scientific world alike honorable and 

 useful, and the State Board of Agriculture most earnestly urge 

 upon the legislature a liberal policy for its support as an im- 

 portant branch of education in the Commonwealth. 



The reports of delegates to the county societies were then 

 read by their titles and adopted. The several essays were 

 also read a second time and adopted. 



Mr. HuBBAED then submitted the following : — 



Whereas, In the opinion of the State Board of Agriculture 

 it is of the highest importance that the agricultural products 

 of the Commonwealth should be placed in the best markets at 

 the lowest rates of transportation, without which increased 

 production is of secondary value and increased expenditure 

 of labor and capital on the farm measurably unremunerative ; 

 it is 



Resolved, That a committee of three members be appointed 

 by this Board to aid the Secretary in memorializing the legis- 

 lature to secure, if possible, a lower tariff of freight on our 

 railroads for agricultural products, or at least to place them 

 on rates proportionately uniform with those denominated long 

 or through freights. 



The Committee appointed consisted of Messrs. John B. 

 Moore, of Concord, Eliphalet Stone, of Dedham, and Avery 

 P. Slade, of Somerset. 



The Committee on INIeetings was constituted by the appoint- 

 ment of Messrs. Miles, Fay, Hadweu, Sturtevant and the 

 Secretary. 



Voted, To meet at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 

 Amherst, on the 15th and 16th of July. 



Voted, That the Secretary be requested to notify the vari- 

 ous Agricultural Societies that the rule in regard to awarding 

 premiums and gratuities upon grade and native bulls is still 

 in force. 



Voted, That in the opinion of this Board it is very desira- 

 ble that the various Agricultural Societies in this Common- 

 wealth maintain scholarships at the Agricultural College and 

 select the young men who are to receive the benefit of the 



