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on place for public winter meeting, that the meeting should 

 be held at Greenfield. The report was accepted, and the 

 Board voted to hold the next winter meeting at Greenfield. 



At 5 p.m. the Board adjourned to 9.30 a.m., Thursday. 



THIRD DAY. 



The Board met at 9.30 a.m., Mr. Grinnell in the chair. 



Present: Messrs. F. H. Appleton, J. S. Appleton, Jr., 

 Avery, Blair, Bourne, Brewster, Bursley, Clark, Cook, 

 Cruickshanks, Damon, Ellsworth, Goessmann, Gove, Grin- 

 nell, Hersey, Horton, Ivilbourn, Lyman, Norton, Pratt, 

 S. M. Raymond, Reed, Sargent, Sessions, Francis Shaw, 

 N. W. Shaw, Smith, Stetson, Taylor, Wellington and 

 Wood. 



The records of the second day were read and approved. 



Voted, On motion of Mr. Wood, that a local committee 

 of seven, of whom the first vice-president shall be a mem- 

 ber, be appointed by the Chair to act with the secretary 

 in arranging for the public winter meeting. The Chair 

 appointed Messrs. Taylor, Horton, Lyman, Brooks, Gove 

 and Smith. 



The committee on Agricultural College and education 

 reported subjects and names of essayists for the next annual 

 meeting, as follows : — 



"Cold storage for farm products," Geo. L. Clemence ; "The 

 farmer's opportunity," C. B. Lyman. 



The report was accepted and the appointments were 

 made. 



The committee on agricultural societies, by Mr. Kil- 

 bourn, chairman, reported recommending that the time of 

 holding the fair of the Bristol County Agricultural Society 

 be changed from the fourth Tuesday after the first Monday 

 in September to the third Tuesday after the first Monday in 



