SPEOIAL MEETING 



BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, 



The Board met at the office of the Secretary in Boston, 

 Aug. 23, 1887, at eleven o'clock, having been called together 

 by order of the executive committee for the purpose of 

 choosing a secretary to fill the vacancy caused by the with- 

 drawal of Mr. Francis H. Appleton's acceptance of the 

 office of secretary. 



Present : Messrs. Bartholomew, Bird, Bowditch, Brackett, 

 Brooks, Clark, Cruickshank, Cushman, Damon, Douty, 

 Edson, Goddard, Goessmann, Goodell, Grinnell, Hartshorn, 

 Hill, Howes, Lynde, Nichols, Owen, Peirce, Porter, Ses- 

 sions, Slade, Smith of Amherst, Smith of Deei*field, Snow, 

 Stock well, Taft, Upton, Varnum, Ware, Wlieeler, Wood. 



Hon. James S. Grinnell was elected chairman. On taking 

 the chair Mr. Grinnell spoke of the death of Captain John 

 B. Moore of Concord, and ofiered the following resolu- 

 tions : — 



Whereas^ we have heai-d with feelings of more than ordinary 

 sorrow of the death of John B. Moore : 



Resolved, That in his death we have lost one who, as a member 

 of the Board, was most valuable, upright and faithful ; as a friend, 

 most positive and unswerving ; as a practical and theoretical teacher 

 in the science of agriculture, unsurpassed by any. 



Resolved, That in his death, the farmers, the gardenera and the 

 people, not only of this State, but of the whole country, will miss 

 one whose long experience in his profession, and whose happy and 



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