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Professor Agassiz. Yes, sir, I do mean to say that, so far as 

 my experiments with hens will determine it. 

 Adjourned to 2 o'clock, P. M. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



The Board met at 2 o'clock. 



Mr. Stedman moved that a committee of three be appointed 

 to report at the next annual meeting some system by which the 

 Board may collect and embody, in the form of statistics, infor- 

 mation relative to the propagation of the various domestic 

 animals. 



Mr. S., in advocating the passage of the resolution, said : It 

 has been observed, Mr. Chairman, by the discussion this morn- 

 ing, that we proceed about as far as we have done in years past, 

 and do not get much further. Many of us recollect certain 

 facts in our business operations ; many, equally important, we 

 forget ; and none of them have been recorded with sufficient 

 accuracy to be wholly reliable. My idea is, that by the appoint- 

 ment of this committee, and by issuing a printed schedule of 

 questions, (such as, for instance, the age of your male ? the age 

 of your female ? the length of time she goes with young ? and 

 various other questions which such a committee would suggest,) 

 which each member of the Board who is engaged in breeding 

 may take and distribute among agricultural people, we might bo 

 able to gather a great amount of information, which, if left in 

 this loose way, would never be put into shape, or, if it was, it 

 would be of such a character as to be of no value ; some would 

 record one fact and some another. It occurred to me that 

 something of this kind might be done to promote the object we 

 have in view. 



The motion was adopted, and the committee subsequently 

 appointed, as follows : Mr. Stedman and Professors Agassiz and 

 Chadbourne. 



GRArE CULTURE. 



This subject having been assigned for consideration, Hon. E. 

 W. Bull, of Concord, addressed the Board. He said : — 



I do not propose, gentlemen, to repeat again the invitation 

 which on former occasions I have made to the Board, to examine 

 into this matter of grape culture, and look at the arguments by 

 which it is proved that grapes can bo profitably cultivated in tho 



