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On motion of Mr. Stockwell, the following resolution was 

 unanimously adopted : — 



Resolved, That the Board of Agriculture congratulates the 

 farmers of the State on the law passed by the present Legis- 

 lature, "to prevent deception in the manufacture and sale 

 of imitation butter ; " to compel honesty in the sale of dairy 

 products, and to protect from the fraudulent sale of imitations 

 thereof. 



Resolved, That the Board earnestly urges the Legislature 

 to enact a bill for the better protection of dairy products, 

 and to establish a dairy commission for the efficient enforce- 

 ment of the above act and all other dairy laws, that the 

 farmers may be insured the dairy market both at home and 

 abroad by furnishing a pure product of best quality. 



The Board then adjourned. 



WM. R. SESSIONS, 



Secretary. 



A special meeting of the Board of Agriculture was held 

 in the library of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 

 Boston, Dec. 2, 1891, at five o'clock p.m. Hon. James S. 

 Grinnell presided, and a majority of the members were 

 present. 



Voted, That Messrs. Grinnell, Bowditch and the secretary 

 be added to the committee appointed at the last annual 

 meeting of the Board, to whom was referred the essays 

 read at the said annual meeting and printed in the "Agri- 

 culture of Massachusetts " for 1890 ; the full committee to 

 consist of Messrs. Appleton,Wood, Hersey, Shaler, Bowker, 

 Grinnell, Bowditch and the secretary. 



Voted, That the same committee consider the suggestions 

 of his Excellency the Governor for the greater efficiency 

 and usefulness of the Board of Agriculture, and as to the 

 representation of Massachusetts agriculture at the World's 

 Columbian Exposition at Chicago. The committee was 

 instructed to report at the annual meeting. 



Adjourned. WM. R. SESSIONS, 



Secretary. 



