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to exercise all the duties and powers conferred upon the 

 Board of Agriculture by House Bill, No. 228, entitled, 

 " An Act to provide against depredations by the insect 

 known as the Ocneria dixpar or gypsy moth." 



The Chair appointed as nominating committee Messrs. 

 Bowditch, Cruickshanks and Mills. 



The committee reported by their chairman, Mr. Bowditch, 

 nominating the secretary, Wm. R. Sessions, Prof. N. S. 

 Slialer and Francis H. Appleton as a committee to act for 

 the Board, with full powers conferred upon the Board by the 

 Legislature. 



The report was accepted and adopted, and the said gentle- 

 men were elected for the said purpose. 



Voted, That the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture 

 petition the Legislature for the appropriation of fifty thou- 

 sand dollars in addition to the amount left of former appro- 

 priations, the same to be used for continuing the work of 

 the extermination of the Ocneria dispar or gypsy moth, and 

 that the secretary be instructed to prepare, sign for the Board 

 and transmit such a petition to the Governor, with the request 

 that he present it to the Legislature in a special message. 



Voted, On motion of Mr. Bowker, that the matter of 

 abandoned farms be referred to the executive committee and 

 the secretary, with full power to act for the Board in carrying 

 out the provisions of any law that may be enacted by the 

 Legislature in regard to the abandoned farms of Massachusetts . 



Voted, On motion of Mr. Bowditch, that the committee on 

 legislation be instructed to confer with the legislative com- 

 mittees on public health and agriculture, and express to them 

 (he opinion of this Board that a resolve like the one now 

 before the Legislature, providing for an examination by the 

 State Board of Agriculture to ascertain the best methods of 

 protection against the dangers to human life and health 

 arising from tuberculosis in the food products of cattle, 

 known as Senate, No. 210, would not accomplish the 

 desired result, by reason of insufficient appropriation and for 

 the reason that the Board believes the Board of Health is the 

 proper Board to undertake such investigation. 



