REPORT. 



The following report has been transmitted to the Secretary 

 of the State Board of Agriculture by his Excellency the 

 Governor, with the request that it be included in the "Agri- 

 culture of Massachusetts." 



Report or the National Farmers' Congress 

 at Sedalia, Mo., Nov. 10-12, 1891. 



To His Excellency William E. Russell. 



Having accepted the appointment as delegate to the Eleventh 

 Annual Session of The National Farmers' Congress, held at 

 Sedalia, Mo., November 10, 11 and 12 of the present year, it 

 gives me great satisfaction to make a brief report of my action, 

 and the results of the congress to which by your kindness I was 

 appointed with others to represent the Commonwealth of Massa- 

 chusetts. 



I reached Sedalia on the afternoon of November 9, and found a 

 city in the centre of one of the richest and most productive 

 prairies of the great State of Missouri, — a city having already 

 attained a population of about fourteen thousand inhabitants, 

 with regularly laid out streets, many of them well paved and pro- 

 vided with large and handsomely constructed business blocks and 

 public and private buildings. Many delegates from distant States 

 had already arrived, whose acquaintance I had the pleasure of mak- 

 ing previous to the opening of the congress. 



On the morning of the 10th promptly at ten o'clock the con- 

 vention assembled ; and, the States being called, there responded 

 delegates from thirty different States, to the number of two 

 hundred. Massachusetts and Maine were the only ones repre- 

 sented of the New England States. Philander Williams of 

 Taunton, Samuel Hawkes of Saugus, and myself, were the only 

 delegates present out of the fourteen appointed by your Excel- 

 lency to represent this State. 



