286 BOARD OF xVGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Election of specialists being in order, ballots were taken, 

 and the elections resulted as follows : — 



Chemist, Dr. C. A. Goessmann of Amherst (Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College) . 



Entomologist, Prof. C. H. Fernald of Amherst (Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College) . 



Botanist and pomologist, Prof. S. T. Maynard of Amherst 

 (Massachusetts Agricultural College). 



Veterinarian, Prof. James B. Paige of Amherst (Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College). 



Engineer, Wm. AVheeler of Concord. 



Ornithologist, E. H. Forbush of Wareham. 



The Chair announced the standing committees as follows 

 (the secretary is, by rule of the Board, a member ex officio 

 of each of the standing committees) : — 



Executive committee : Messrs. W. A. Kilbourn of South Lan- 

 caster, Isaac Damon of Way land, John Bursley of West Barn- 

 stable, Wm. H. Spooner of Boston, Francis H. Appleton of 

 Peabody, Augustus Pratt of North Middleborough, F. W. Sargent 

 of Amesbury, J. L. Ellsworth of Worcester. 



Committee on agricultural societies : Messrs. W. A. Kilbourn 

 of South Lancaster, Q. L. Reed of South Weymouth, Geo. P. 

 Carpenter of Williamstown, 0. E. Brad way of Monson, J. Hard- 

 ing Allen of Barre. 



Committee on domestic animals and sanitation : Messrs. Isaac 

 Damon of Wayland, Oscar S. Thayer of Attleborough, Joshua 

 Clark of Tewksbury, Johnson Whiting of West Tisbury, John S. 

 Anderson of Shelburne. 



Committee on gypsy moth, insects and birds : Messrs. Augustus 

 Pratt of North Middleborough, F. W. Sargent of Amesbury, J. 

 M. Danforth of Lynnfield Centre, John G. Avery of Spencer, 

 Wm. R. Sessions of Springfield. 



Committee on Dairy Bureau and agricultural products : Messrs. 

 J. L. Ellsworth of Worcester, C. D. Richardson of West Brook- 

 field, F. W. Sargent of Amesbury, C. B. Benedict of Egremout, 

 W. M. Wellington of Oxford, A. M. Lyman of Montague. 



Committee on Agricultural College and education : Messrs. John 

 Bursley of West Barnstable, C. K. Brewster of Worthiugton, 

 Wesley B. Barton of Daltou, W. C Jewett of AVorcester, Arthur 

 A. Smith of Colrain, 



