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Some of us work the telephones, talking with the farmers we 

 can get, asking what they think about holding meetings, and 

 we are going to have a country life meeting in Amherst. So 

 far as I have heard, there is no farmer who does not say he 

 will come and talk the thing up among the farmers he meets. 

 If it does not do any other good such a meeting will get them 

 to thinking about our problems, and when we begin to think 

 out a problem in real earnest then some good will follow. 



In the evening a banquet was held under the auspices of 

 the Greenfield board of trade, at the Mansion House. Archi- 

 bald D. Flower, secretary of the board of trade, was toast- 

 master. The distinguished guests were Lieutenant-Governor- 

 elect L. A. Frothingham, Hon. Joseph Walker of Brookline 

 and Prof. Rufus W. Stimson, director of Smith's Agricultural 

 School, who delivered an address on " School and Farm." 



Others who took part in the speaking were Hon. H. C. 

 Parsons of Greenfield and Hon. Frank Gerrett and Mr. Chas. 

 E. Ward of the Board of Agriculture. 



THIRD DAY. 



The session was called to order at 10.30 o'clock a.m., by 

 Secretary Ellsworth, who introduced Mr. Frederick A. Rus- 

 sell of Methuen as the presiding officer. 



The Chair. It gives me great pleasure to perform this 

 duty at this meeting. The subject is one of the most im- 

 portant that can come before an agincultural body. I believe 

 that we, as farmers, agriculturists, should be in a position to 

 leave this world in a better state of cultivation, better state of 

 fertility and better state financially, so that we have been a 

 benefit, when we come to lay down our labors, to those who 

 come after us. 



It gives me great pleasure to introduce to you Dr. E. B. 

 Voorhees, director of the 'New Jersey Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Stations and president of the State Board of Agri- 

 culture. 



