SPECIAL MEETINGS OF THE BOARD OF 

 AGRICULTURE. 



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

 Tuesday, April 28, 1891, at eleven o'clock a.m., having 

 been called together, at the request of the Executive Com- 

 mittee, the Gypsy Moth Commission and the Governor, to 

 consider an act of the Legislature to provide against the 

 depredations of the insect known as the Ocneria ch'spar or 

 gypsy moth, and to provide for the carrying out of the pro- 

 visions of said act, and to consider the necessity of asking 

 the Legislature for further appropriations therefor ; to con- 

 sider an act of the Legislature to authorize the State Board 

 of Agriculture to collect and circulate information relating 

 to abandoned farms, and to provide for the carrying out of 

 the provisions of said act ; to consider a resolve of the 

 Legislature providing for an investigation by the State 

 Board of Agriculture into the dangers to human life and 

 health arising from tuberculosis in the food products of cattle, 

 and to provide for carrying out the provisions of said resolve ; 

 and to consider and act upon the provisions of an act of the 

 Legislature known as the " Dairy Commission Bill." 



Present : Messrs. Alger, Appleton, J. G. Avery, Ban- 

 croft, Bowker, Bowditch, Clapp, Clemence, Cruickshanks, 

 Cushman, Fernald, Fowler, Goessmann, Grinnell, Hayden, 

 Hersey, Holbrook, Horton, Howe, Jvilbourn, Mills, New- 

 hall, Pratt, Rawson, Richards, Russell, Sargent, Shaler, 

 Shaw, Stockwell, Varnuin, Ware and Wood. Hon. James 

 S. Grinnell was elected chairman. 



The call for the meeting and the act of the Legislature in 

 regard to the gypsy moth were read by the secretary. 

 After remarks by Messrs. Shaler, Rawson and Fernald, it 

 was voted, on motion of Mr. Bowditch, that the Chair ap- 

 point a committee of three, to nominate a committee of three 



