SPECIAL BUSINESS MEETINGS OF THE BOARD. 



A special business meeting of the Board of Agriculture 

 was held at Horticultural Hall, Boston, July 22, 1902, at 

 9 o'clock A.M., First Vice-President Wm. R. Sessions pre- 

 sidino". 



Present : Messrs. Anderson, F. H. Appleton, Avery, 

 Barton, Boise, Brad way, Brewster, Bursley, Carpenter, 

 Comins, Damon, Danforth, Ellsworth, Goodell, Goodspeed, 

 Gurney, Hersey, Jewett, Kilbourn, Lyman, Peters, Pratt, 

 Reed, Richardson, Sargent, Sessions, Smith, Spooner, Stock- 

 well, Thayer, Turner and Wellington. 



The appointment of a State nursery inspector, under the 

 provisions of chapter 495 of the Acts of 1902, being in 

 order. Dr. Henry T. Fernald, professor of entomology at 

 the Massachusetts Agricultural College, was unanimously 

 elected to that position. 



Chapter 121 of the Resolves of 1902, being a " Resolve 

 to provide for an investigation and a report by the State 

 Board of Agriculture as to the feasibility and probable cost 

 of producing vaccine lymph at the Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural College, for free distribution within the Common- 

 wealth," was the next matter of business in order, and it 

 was voted that it be referred to the committee on Agricul- 

 tural College and education, with instructions to report to 

 the Board at its annual meeting in January, 1903. 



Dr. Austin Peters, chief of the Cattle Bureau of the Board, 

 presented and read the semiannual report of said Bureau, 

 provided for under section 3 of chapter 116 of the Acts of 

 1902, Avhich report was accepted and referred to the execu- 

 tive committee. 



