130 BOAED OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



TfflRD DAY. 



Chairman Wood. Mr. Augustus Pratt, the delegate from 

 the Plymouth County Agricultural Society, will preside 

 this morning. 



Mr. Pratt. Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen : In 

 the very able address we listened to yesterday afternoon 

 we were pleased to learn from the orator what our State 

 has done for the other United States and also for the world. 

 We were proud to listen to him, and to think of our public 

 schools, our colleges, and especially are we proud of the 

 institution not a great distance from here, — the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural College, — for the work it has done 

 for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and other sections 

 of the United States, and I may say for other countries. 

 Instructors and farmers have graduated and gone from the 

 school to instruct and teach others, not only in this State 

 but in the whole country. And to-day we are fortunate in 

 having with us a gentleman from a sister State, and that 

 State has had the benefit of our Massachusetts college in 

 having a large number of instructors at present as well 

 as in the past who have been educated and sent out from 

 our Massachusetts college. Doctor Wheeler is among the 

 number. I think certainly that the farmers of the Com- 

 monwealth, as well as the people, may feel proud of the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College. 



I take pleasure in introducing to you Dr. Homer J. 

 Wheeler of Kingston, R. I., chemist, Rhode Island Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, a gentleman who pursued his 

 studies at your college, and comes here to give you instruc- 

 tion this morning. 



