VERMONT AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 25 



REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Herewith I submit my second annual report for the year 

 ending June 30, 1900. 



During - the year meetings have been held in all the coun- 

 ties in the state and in more towns than ever before in any 

 one year since the Board was created. 



Two weeks of meetings were held in the month of August 

 1899 with very satisfactory results. At some of the meetings 

 full one thousand attended to hear the Honorable Aaron 

 Jones of Indiana and that noted agriculturalist T. B. Terry 

 of Ohio. 



For the winter meetings the Board was assisted by Col. 

 J. H. Brigham, Ass't Sec'yof the Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington, D. C, John Gould of Ohio, and Prof. C. W. 

 Burkett of the New Hampshire agricultural College and the 

 following Vermonters are men of large practical experience, 

 if not scientific, on the subjects they represented. Prof. L. 

 R. Jones, Botanist; Prof. C. H. Jones, Chemist of the State 

 Agricultural College; Hon. Cassius Peck, Supt. aud member of 

 the Board of Control, Hon. W. B. Vial, State Highway Com- 

 missioner; Geo. Aitken, President of State Agricultural So- 

 city'. R. H. Holmes, President Vermont Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation; J. W. Titcomb, Fish Commissioner; Hon. T. L. Ken- 

 ney, President Horticultural Society; Hon. Mason S. Stone, 

 State Supentendent of Education; Dr. H. D. Holton, Mem- 

 ber State Board of Health; George H. Terrill, of the Small 

 Fruit Growers' Association; L. B. Harris, of the New En- 

 gland Sheep Breeders' Association; D. H. Morse, Randolph; 

 C. F. Smith, Morrisville; Ernest Hitchcock, Pittsford; C. A. 

 Chapman, Ferrisburgh; and T. B. Harriot, of Georgia. 



On several occasions the audience has been pleased to 

 welcome the Governor of the state and hear from him words 

 of encouragement. 



Meetings have been held in forty-three towns during the 

 year, their location will be hereafter named. I will also 

 call your attention to a map upon another page showing the 

 different sections where meetings were held. 



FARMERS' MEETINGS. 



Morrisville, August 22, 1899 



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5, 



South Hero, August 



Rutland August 24, 



Burlington, , August 25, 



Williamstown, August 29, 



Randolph, August 30, 



