PUBLIC WINTER MEETING OF THE BOARD, 



AT NORTH ADAMS, 



The annual public winter meeting* of the Board for lec- 

 tures and discussions was held at Odd Fellows Hall in North 

 Adams, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursdaj^ December 

 2, 3 and 4. The meeting was called to order by Secretary 

 Stockwell at 10.30 o'clock a.m., who introduced First 

 Vice-President Wm. R. Sessions as the presiding officer. 

 Prayer was offered by the Rev. Mr. Tenney of North 

 Adams. 



The Chair. AYe as a Board are enjoying the hospitality 

 of this city, the young giant of the north-western part of 

 our State, and the jNIayor has come to give us the address 

 of welcome. 



ADDRESS OF WELCOME BY ACTING MAYOR 

 WHITAKER. 



jVIr. President, and gentlemen of the State Board of 

 Agriculture, and fellow-citizens, I am very glad to look 

 into your faces this morning and welcome you here to 

 North Adams. AVhen our friends from outside come to 

 visit us we are always very anxious that North Adams 

 should put on her best looks, and to see the sun coming out 

 so brightly this morning is a pleasure to us as well as to 

 yourselves. 



We are very glad to welcome you here to-day, to take 

 up and discuss themes concerning agriculture, because that 

 is one of the weak points here in North Adams ; and to be 

 strengthened rio^lit there is one of the things that we look 

 upon as a pleasure ; and so we cordially and gratefully wel- 

 come you here for this reason. 



North Adams is not specially an agricultural section. 

 Our lines are more drawn in the manufacturing lines. We 



