MEETINGS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF 

 THE BOARD. 



A meeting of the executive committee was held at the 

 office of the secretary, Boston, Thursday, May 21, at eleven 

 o'clock A.M. 



Present : Messrs. Bowditch, Hersey, Hartshorn, Bawson 

 and Varnum. 



On petition of the Middlesex North Agricultural Society, 

 it was voted that the said society be permitted to hold their 

 next fair on Sept. 23, 24 and 25, 1891, instead of on the 

 late assigned by the Board, which was September 29 and 30. 



Voted, That on and after this year no society will be 

 allowed to publish the date of its next succeeding fair until 

 after the annual meeting of the Board, and that the secre- 

 tary be instructed to inform each society of the adoption of 

 this rule. 



The resignation of N. S. Shaler, chairman of the examin- 

 ing committee of the Agricultural College, was received and 

 accepted by the committee, and Mr. W. A. Kilbourn of 

 South Lancaster was elected to fill the vacancy. 



Voted, That the secretary be instructed to prepare a cir- 

 cular for transmission to the assessors of the several cities 

 and towns of the Commonwealth, asking said assessors to 

 return to the State Board of Agriculture, upon a blank pre- 

 pared for that purpose, the names of the owners of aban- 

 doned or partially abandoned farms situated in the several 

 cities and towns of the State ; and that the secretary, by cor- 

 respondence or otherwise, obtain descriptions of such farms 



