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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Worcester West, 

 Worcester North, . 

 Worcester North- West, 

 Worcester South, 

 Worcester South-East, 



Hampshire, Franklin and 



Hampshire, . 



Highland, 



Hampden, 



Hampden East, 

 Union, 



Franklin, 



Deerjield Valley, 



Berkshire, 



Housatonic, . 



Hoosac Valley, 



Norfolk, . 



Bristol, . 



Bristol Central, 



Plymouth, 



Marshfield, 

 Hingham, 

 Barnstable, 

 Nantucket, 

 Martha's Vineyard, . 



Hampden 



H. Converse. 

 J. Ladd. 



E. W. Boise. 

 N. P. Brown. 

 R. H. Leavitt. 

 L. Saltonstall. 

 Jos. N. Sturtevant. 

 T. L. Allis. 



Levi Stockbridge. 

 T. P. Root. 



F. P. Fay. 



J. McElwain. 

 W. Knowlton. 

 E. Stone. 

 A. P. Peck. 

 N. S. Hubbard. 

 A. Fearing. 

 M. P. Wilder. 

 C. G. Davis. 

 A. P. Slade. 

 O. B. Hadwen. 



G. B. Loring. 

 A. M. Myrick. 

 W. S. Clark. 



W. BlRNIE. 



The report was adopted and the assignment made accordingly. 

 Mr. Goodman then submitted the following report on the 



AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL EDUCATION FOR 



WOMEN. 



Mrs. Cheney, in her address at the meeting of the Board at 

 Fall River, has treated the subject of the horticultural educa- 

 tion of women with such fulness and appositeness, that it may 

 seem a work of supererogation, at least, for one of the masculine 

 gender to attempt to glean the field over which she has trav- 

 eled ; but, perchance, as the topic at the head of this essay has 

 been assigned to your Committee, it may not be presumptuous 

 to attempt to enforce the views presented by Mrs. Cheney with 

 a few considerations from a different stand-point. 



M. De Tocqueville, the acutest observer of our institutions 

 among the mass who have ventured to record their criticism on 

 the democrats and democracy of America, compliments us by say- 

 ing that our singular prosperity and growing strength is owing 



