SPECIAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, 



AT DALTON. 



Dalton, Mass., Dec. 3, 1895. 



The Board of Agriculture met at the Opera House, Dalton, 

 this day, at 9.30 a.m., for business. 



Present: First Vice-Pres. James S. Grinnell, who pre- 

 sided, and Messrs. Alger, F. H. Appleton, J. S. Appleton, 

 Jr., Avery, H. A. Barton, Blair, Bourne, Brooks, Bursley, 

 Clark, Clemence, Cook, Cruickshanks, Damon, Goessmann, 

 Goodell, Gove, Hartshorn, Harwood, Hersey, Horton, Ivil- 

 bourn, Lyman, Norton, Palmer, Pratt, S. M. Raymond, 

 Reed, Sargent, Sessions, Francis Shaw, N". W. Shaw, Stet- 

 son, Taylor, Tucker, Ward, Wellington and Wood. 



A draft of the annual report of the secretary of the Board 

 to the Legislature was read by the secretary and discussed. 



Voted, That the secretary be authorized to print in con- 

 solidated form the several essays printed in the Massachu- 

 setts Crop Reports of 1895, and publish the same separate 

 from his annual report. 



Voted, That the secretary be authorized to ask the Legis- 

 lature to increase the appropriation for incidentals in the 

 office of the secretary to eight hundred dollars, and the 

 appropriation for the dissemination of useful information in 

 agriculture to two thousand dollars. 



Voted, That the secretary be authorized to petition the 

 Legislature for one thousand dollars, under the act of the 

 year 1891, "to authorize the State Board of Agriculture 

 to collect and circulate information relating to abandoned 

 farms" (Acts of 1891, chapter 280). 



