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Porter of the Hillside Agricultural Society; Walter D. Ross of 

 the Worcester Agricultural Society; and J. Harding Allen of 

 the Worcester County W'est Agricultural Society. 



Two of the members appointed by the Governor, Hon. Wra. 

 R. Sessions of Springfield and General Francis Henry Appleton 

 of Peabody, resigned their positions on the Board. The vacan- 

 cies thus caused were filled by the appointment of Charles E. 

 Ward of Buckland and Henry M. Howard of West Newton. 



Two societies, the Bristol County and the Middlesex North, 

 held fairs during the year, and are entitled to delegates on the 

 Board for the ensuing year, William N. Howard of South Easton 

 and George W. Trull of Tewksbury having been respectively 

 elected to represent these societies. 



Meetings of the Board. 



On June 25, 1907, the Board held a summer field meeting on 

 the grounds of the Housatonic Agricultural Society, at Great 

 Barrington, with the usual demonstration work, which has 

 proved itself so popular in recent years, as the feature of the 

 meeting. This meeting was held in this locality to the end 

 that the farmers of Berkshire County, who had not previously 

 been afforded a convenient opportunity to attend one of these 

 meetings, might participate with those of other sections in the 

 benefits arising from them. The attendance was of more local 

 character than at previous meetings, owing to the place of 

 meeting and the difficulty of reaching it by train from a dis- 

 tance without coming the night before, and, while very giati- 

 fying from a local standpoint, was not up to that afforded the 

 meetings previously held in other sections. 



On Aug. 13, 1907, a second field meeting for the year was 

 held on the grounds of the Worcester Agricultural Society, at 

 Worcester. The day was an unusually warm one, the meeting 

 followed a week very full of attractions for the farmers, and the 

 attendance was hardly what had been hoped for; nevertheless, 

 a very fine programme was presented, including three entirely 

 new demonstrations. 



The public winter meeting for lectures and discussions was 

 held at Boston, at the hall of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society, on invitation of that body. The addresses and discus- 



