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one-horned cow and put her into the herd, and that pur- 

 chased cow, like all other cows, wanted to try her strength 

 and see which was going to be mistress, and which was going 

 to yield. She tried this big cow, and she annoyed her re- 

 peatedly by hooking, driving and pushing her. Somehow 

 or other that cow got her grit up. One day I happened to 

 hear a noise and I looked up in the pasture. There was a 

 high stone wall along the lower side of one field, and against 

 the upper side of another. I looked up there and saw a big 

 gap in the wall, with the horned cow standing below the wall 

 and the no-horned cow standing above it. They were look- 

 ing at each other through the wall. The gap was made at 

 the time the horned cow was thrown over that wall. They 

 were both the most surprised animals I ever saw. There 

 was no more trouble of that kind. That cow found out that 

 she need not turn out for any other cow unless she cared to, 

 and she took care of herself. But when the animals are all 

 bred with no horns, there is no temptation to quarrel and try 

 to injure each other. 



Adjourned to seven o'clock. 



Evening Session. 



The Board met at seven o'clock, when a lecture was de- 

 livered by the Secretary, on The Climate of Massachusetts. 



At the conclusion of the lecture, on motion of Mr. Grin- 

 nell, it was voted that an hour be spent in the discussion of 

 the subject of Forestry. 



The Chairman. It has been very pertinently suggested 

 that perhaps the audience would like to hear INIr. Russell 

 open the discussion on Forestry in any manner he may 

 choose. 



Secretary Russell. I do not want to talk al)out things 

 that you all know about. I cannot take up a new subject 

 to-night. And then, I do not want to get into any dispute. 

 There is Mr. Manning. He is the man to open the discus- 

 sion, lie is an eminent authority. 



The Chairman. Mr. Manning is authority on forest trees 

 and tree planting. 



