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States Congress, and that the members of the Board per- 

 sonally exert themselves to interest their Congressmen to 

 visit the infested territory. 

 Adjourned. 



Boston, Oct. 4, 1899. 



By vote of the executive committee, a special meeting of 

 the Board of Agriculture was called at Boston, October 4 

 and 5, in order that the members might receive compensa- 

 tion for their travelling and necessary expenses in attending 

 the meeting of the Farmers' National Congress, they being 

 by ap[)ointment of His Excellency associate delegates to the 

 said Congress. 



"VVestfield, Dec. 5, 1899. 



The Board of Agriculture met in Columbia Hall, West- 

 field, this day, at 10.30 a.m., for business. 



Present : Second Vice-President E. W. Wood, who pre- 

 sided, and Messrs. Allen, F. H. Appleton, J. S. Appleton, 

 Baker, Barrus, Barton, Benedict, Bowditch, Bursley, Clark, 

 Damon, Danforth, Ellsworth, Hall, Hersey, Horton, How- 

 ard, Kilbourn, Lloyd, Pratt, Reed, Richardson, Sargent, 

 Smith, Stockwell, Thayer, Thurston and Whitmore. 



The secretary presented and read the report of the gypsy 

 moth committee to the Legislature. 



The Chairman. You have heard the report of your com- 

 mittee. It is now in the hands of the Board. What will 

 you do with it ? 



Mr. W. B. Barton (of Dalton). I move that it be 

 accepted and adopted. 



Prof. C. H. Fernald (of Amherst). Mr. President, 

 ladies and gentlemen : I firmly believe, if the money the 

 committee has asked for from year to year had been 

 promptly granted, the gypsy moth would to-day be entirely 

 exterminated. That is not a guess ; it is the result of a 

 careful examination and study of the whole question. Since 

 it has not been done, we have to meet the problem where 



