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Stevens of the Iloosac Valley Agricultural Society, Edwiu 

 L. Board man of the Ilousatonic Agricultural Society, Col. 

 II. A. Oakmau of the Marshfield Agricultural and Ilorti- 

 cnltural Society, each after three years of service; II. G. 

 Worth of the Nantucket Agricultural Society, after six years 

 of service; and William A. Kilbourn of the Worcester East 

 Agricultural Society, after eighteen years of service. 



Meetings of the Board. 



On June 5, 1908, the Board held a summer field meeting 

 on the grounds of Mr. C. A. Bronson, at Ashficld, with the 

 usual demonstrations, as the principal feature of the meeting. 

 This meeting was held at this place so that the farmers of 

 a large and thriving agricultural section, but one which is 

 not easy to get to or from for a single day's trip, could have 

 the benefits of this class of work, which they had not pre- 

 viously enjoyed. In other words, as there were but few of 

 them who could come to these meetings, the meeting was 

 taken to them. The attendance was purely local, and was 

 very satisfactory. Proper methods of grading and packing 

 fruit, the points of the dairy cow, the soundness of the horse, 

 and proper methods of budding, grafting and pruning fruit 

 trees, were the subjects demonstrated. 



A second meeting was held on Barre Common, at Barre, 

 on Aug. 21, 1908. This meeting was well advertised and 

 well attended, both by local people and those from a distance. 

 The points of the dairy cow, the soundness of the horse, 

 and the proper methods of budding, grafting and pruning 

 fruit trees, were again demonstrated. A new subject at this 

 meeting was the demonstration of the proper methods of 

 handling and hiving bees, with an observation hive, and in- 

 structions as to best methods of keeping them, by Dr. James 

 B. Paige, professor of veterinary science at the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College. 



The public winter meeting of the Board was held at Green- 

 field, on the invitation of the Franklin County Agricultural 

 Society. The programme was a varied one and the meeting 

 of great interest, but the attendance was a disappointment. 

 Greenfield does not seem to be a good place to secure an 



