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the following Sunday, and Mr. Candage of Brookline ex- 

 tended an invitation on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce 

 for the members to attend a reception given by that body on 

 the following Thursday evening at their rooms from 8 to 9 

 o'clock. 



The president then read his annual address, a copy of 

 which, with other papers read, can be consulted in the 

 printed report of the Congress. A recess was then taken 

 until 2 o'clock p.m. 



At the afternoon session a committee of five persons on 

 credentials was appointed, who reported four hundred and 

 two delegates entitled to sit in the Congress. The Chair 

 appointed D. C. Kolp, Esq., of Iowa Park, Tex., assistant 

 secretary ; and on finance John G. Avery, Massachusetts, 

 W. B. Powell, Pennsylvania, G. H. Baldwin, Illinois, and 

 T. C. Slaughter of Texas. The committee on resolutions, 

 one from each State, was appointed, of which Mr. Candage 

 of Massachusetts was elected chairman. 



Dr. Henry H. Goodell, president of the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College, Amherst, read an interesting paper on 

 "The mission of the experiment station," followed by Hon. 

 J. W. Stock well, secretary Massachusetts State Board of 

 Agriculture, on "Decline of farm lands in the east : cause 

 and remedy." These papers were freely discussed. 



At the evening session resolutions were received and 

 referred to committee on resolutions, after which Hon. 

 Franklin Dye of New Jersey, secretary of State Board of 

 Agriculture, read a paper on "Agricultural progress and 

 profit." A spirited discussion followed. It was Voied^ To 

 accept the invitation extended by the Boston Chamber of 

 Commerce. On motion of Mr. Dye, two verses of "My 

 Country, 'tis of Thee," were sung, and the meeting adjourned, 

 to meet next day, upon invitation of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society, in their Hall, Tremont Street, at 10 

 o'clock A.M. 



Wednesday, Oct. 4, 1899. 



The Congress met at 10 a.m., the president in the chair. 

 Notice was given by the finance committee of an amend- 

 ment to the constitution, "giving power to the executive 



