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on Nov. 29, 1899, " That the president and treasurer be and 

 hereby are authorized and empowered to borrow the sum of 

 $2,000, or such lesser sum as may seem to them necessary, 

 to be used in meeting the indebtedness of the society, and to 

 sign, execute and deliver, to secure the payment of said sum, 

 a deed of mortgage of the real estate of the society, subject 

 to the mortgages now existing on said real estate." It appear- 

 ing that the action of the society was according to law and 

 properly advertised, and no person appearing in opposition 

 to the request of the society, it was 



Voted, That the Board of Agriculture approves of the vote 

 of the Berkshire Agricultural Society, passed at its special 

 meeting, as above quoted, in accordance with the provisions 

 of chapter 274 of the Acts of 1890. 



Secretary Stockwell. The matter of the gypsy moth that 

 was brought up at the last meeting is now in order, and I 

 move that the consideration of the matter of its extermi- 

 nation before Cons^ress be deferred to the annual meeting 

 of the Board, at Boston, January 9. 



The motion was seconded, and it was so voted. 



Secretary Stockwell. I have received from the Massa- 

 chusetts Fish and Game Protective Association a letter, re- 

 questing that we appoint one or more delegates to meet their 

 members and representatives of other sportsmen's and farmers' 

 clubs in convention at the Copley Square Hotel, Boston, on 

 Thursday, Dec. 14, 1899. I move that Messrs. Ellsworth 

 of Worcester and Thurston of Swansea be th© delegates to 

 this convention. 



The motion was seconded, and it was so voted. 



The Chair. The time for our regular meetinsr has arrived. 

 Mr. A. M. Lyman of Montague, representing the Massachu- 

 setts Forestry Association, has made application, and we 

 have granted his request, to make a short statement in regard 

 to its work. 



Mr. Lyman. Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, and 

 people of western Massachusetts especially : I have been re- 

 quested by the executive officers of the Massachusetts For- 



