EEPORT OF THE DELEGATES TO THE FARMERS' 

 NATIONAL CONGRESS.* 



At Boston, Mass., 1899. 



To His Excellency Roger Wolcott. 



Sir : — The delegates from Massachusetts to the Farmers' 

 NatioDal Congress, which held its nineteenth annual session 

 at Boston, Mass., Oct. 3-10, 1899, thank you for the honor 

 of their appointment, and submit the following report. 



The Congress met in Faneuil Hall, and was called to order 

 at 10 o'clock A.M. on Oct. 3, 1899, by Hon. William D. 

 Hoard of Wisconsin, its president. The three sessions of 

 the first day were held in the " Old Cradle of Liberty," but, 

 owing to a lack of facilities for heating it, the remaining 

 sessions were held in Horticultural Hall. 



Delegates and associate delegates, numbering some three 

 hundred and fifty, were present from the New England, 

 Middle, Southern and Middle Western States. 



Prayer was offered by Rev. Henry C. Graves, assistant 

 pastor of Tremont Temple Church, Boston. 



Addresses of welcome were made by Hon. Josiah Quincy, 

 mayor of Boston; Gen. Francis H. Appleton, on behalf of 

 the Governor of the Commonwealth, and by E. G. Preston, 

 Esq., secretary of the Boston Chamber of Commerce on 

 behalf of that body. , 



Responses were by President Hoard, Secretary John M. 

 Stahl of Chicago, Hon. W. G. Whitmore of Valley, Neb., 

 and Col. B. F. Clayton of Indianola, la., ex-president of 

 the Congress. 



The Rev. H. C. Graves extended an invitation to the 

 members to attend divine service at the Tremont Temple 



* This report has been transmitted to the secretary of the State Board of Agri- 

 culture by His Excellency the Governor, and, according to custom, is included in 

 the " Agriculture of Massachusetts." 



