62 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Voted, That in the opinion of this Board, immediate action 

 should he taken hy the legislature to stay the progress and 

 insure the eradication of this disease, and that a committee of 

 three members be appointed to present the views of this Board 

 to the legislature, and to appear before such committees of the 

 legislature as may be appointed to consider the subject. 



Messrs. Loring, Lathrop, and Moore were appointed as this 

 committee. 



On motion of Mr. Stedman, a committee of three was appointed 

 to report a plan of proceedings for the session : Messrs. Stedman, 

 Bull, and Colt. Tiie Secretary was subsequently added to the 

 committee. 



This committee subsequently presented the following — 



REPORT. 



The Committee on the preparatiou of business for the present 

 ession of tlie Board, report — 



1st. Reports of Delegates to the County Societies. 



2d. Essays. Preparation of Land for Crops, with special 

 reference to Drainage. 



3d. Management of Forest Trees, including the planting of 

 Pines on the seacoast. 



4th. Fruit Culture. 



5th. Profit and Expediency of Growing Meat in this Com- 

 monwealth. 



6th. Any of the topics not enumerated above. 



The committee recommend that each subject assigned at the 

 last annual meeting, and not to be reported upon at tliis session 

 of the Board, be discussed by the Board at its present sitting, 

 and continued in the list for the current year. 



Pleuro-Pneumonia. 



As another subject, we recommend a free discussion uJDon the 

 establisliment of an Agricultural College in Massachusetts. 



We also recommend that at least two public meetings for 

 Lectures and Discussion, be held in the Representatives' Hall, 

 provided leave of the House be first obtained. 



P. Stedman, for the Committee. 



This report having been adopted, it was- 



