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SPECIAL MEETING. 



A special meeting of tlie Board was held in Springfield, 

 Thursday, Dec. 8, 1887, at nine o'clock a. m. 



Members present : Messrs. Brooks, Burgess, Clark, Cush- 

 man, Edson, Goddard, Goessmann, Hartshorn, Hersey, 

 Howes, Porter, Slade, Smith of Amherst, Smith of Deer- 

 field, Stockwell, Taft, Upton, Ware, Wheeler and Wood. 



Mr. Velorous Taft was elected chairman. 



In conformity to the vote passed at the last Annual Meet- 

 ing concerning the holding of Farmers' Institutes, Mr. Her- 

 sey, as chairman of the committee then appointed, reported 

 the following : — 



While your committee do not recommend the adoption of 

 rigid rules, they would suggest that the Board recommend 

 that societies decide as early in the season as possible the 

 number of Institutes, if more than three, they will hold dur- 

 ing the year, the subjects they wish to have discussed, and 

 also the speakers desired, and send their decisions to the 

 Secretary of the Board, whose duty it shall be to arrange 

 the meetings and assign the speakers in such a manner as 

 shall be most convenient. 



Your committee would recommend that where societies 

 are favorably located for holding a union meeting, that two 

 or more unite and hold a Unions Farmers' Institute ; and it is 

 recommended that it shall count as one Institute to each of 

 the societies thus united. 



Your committee would recommend that the Secretary of 

 the Board be requested to be present at such Union Insti- 



