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We would also recommend that the system of exchanges 

 established last year, be conthiued, and, if possible, made more 

 extensive. For the committee, 



Levi Stockbridge, Chairman. 



On motion of Mr. Lathrop, the proposition of the Hampsliire, 

 Franklin and Hampden Society, offering the use of their 

 -grounds to the Board, for the purposes of a State fair, was 

 taken up for consideration. 



A motion having been made to hold a State fair there in 

 1863, was, after discussion, withdrawn. 



The delegates to attend the exhibition of the County Agri- 

 cultural Societies, were assigned, as follows : To the 



Essex, Leverett Saltonstali,. 



Middlesex, Charles C Sewall. 



Middlesex North, Harrison Garfield. 



Middlesex South, Charles 0. Perkins. 



Worcester, Daniel A. Cleaveland. 



"Worcester West, John B. Moore. 



Worcester North, Phineas Stedman. 



Worcester South, Asa Clement. 



Worcester South-East, ...... Aldred Homer. 



Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden, . . . George B. Loring. 



Highland, Edward W. Stebbins. 



Hampshire, Charles G. Davis. 



Hampden, Elias Grout. 



Hampden East, Levi Stockbridge. 



Franklin, ........ Matthew Smith. 



Berkshire, George B. Loring. 



Hoosac Valley, Abel F. Adams. 



Housatonic, T.G.Huntington. 



Norfolk, . Samuel Hartwell. 



Bristol, HoLLis Tidd. 



Plymouth, Perry Wood. 



Barnstable, ........ Stlvander Johnson. 



Nantucket, Paoli Lathrop. 



Martha's Vineyard, Henry R. Keith. 



Mr. Stedman, from a committee on Subjects and a Plan of 

 operations for the year, submitted a list of subjects for investi- 

 gation, on which committees were appointed as follows : 



1st. On the comparative value of different kinds of Food for 

 different classes of Stock, and the most economical mode of 

 preparing it — Messrs. Loring, Lathrop, Perkins, and Homer. 



2d. Farm Buildings — Messrs. Perkins, Loring, and Thompson. 



