No. 4.] ANNUAL MEETING. 363 



the State Agricultural Experiment Station, in the effort to 

 secure proper legislation governing the sale of concentrated 

 feed stuffs under a guaranteed analysis. 



Voted, That the election of secretary and other officers be 

 assigned to 1.30 o'clock. 



Mr. W. A. Kilbourn read an essay on "The Employment 

 of Farm Labor," which was accepted, and will be found 

 printed in this volume. 



On motion of Mr. Bancroft, Voted, That Messrs. Wood, 

 Hartshorn, Appleton and the secretary be a committee on 

 legislation. 



Mr. J. W. Stockwell read an essay on "The Past and 

 Future of the Board of Agriculture," which was accepted, 

 and will be found printed in this volume. 



The committee on place for holding the public winter 

 meeting reported, by its chairman, that the meeting should be 

 held at Spencer. The report was accepted, and the Board 

 voted to hold the next public winter meeting at Spencer. 



A committee of arrangements for the public winter meet- 

 ing was appointed : the secretary and Messrs. Warren, 

 Hartshorn, Kimball, Cruickshanks and Holbrook. 



Mr. W. A. Kilbourn, for the committee on changes of time 

 for holding fairs, reported that the time for holding the Attle- 

 borough be changed to the third Tuesday after the first Mon- 

 day in September ; the Bristol, to the fourth Wednesday after 

 the first Monday in September ; the Hampshire, Franklin and 

 Hampden, to the third Tuesday after the first Monday in Sep- 

 t ember ; the Massachusetts Horticultural, to the fifth Tuesday 

 after the first Monday in September ; the Middlesex North, 

 to the second Tuesday after the first Monday in September ; 

 the Spencer, to the third Thursday after the first Monday in 

 September ; the Weymouth , to the fourth Thursday after 

 the first Monday in September ; the Worcester, to the first 

 Tuesday after the first Monday in September ; the Worces- 

 ter North, to the third Tuesday after the first Monday in 

 September ; and the Worcester County West, to the fourth 

 Thursday after the first Monday in September. 



