212 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



in behalf of the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agri- 

 culture, to invite him to deliver three lectures upon the 

 value of better roads. I Avas with him at the rooms of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society in Boston, the rooms 

 of the Worcester County Horticultural Society in Worces- 

 ter, and at the rooms of the Essex Institute in Salem, for 

 the tliree lectures. The Board can feel that the seeds then 

 sown Avere in line with the work that it was desirous to 

 promote. 



Your committee has no special funds to work with, has a 

 membership of five ; but they believe that, in reality, the 

 subject under Avhich they have been called to act has now 

 become recognized of so much importance to the people in 

 general that the Avorkers in behalf of better forestry, roads 

 and roadside improvements are almost legion. 



An appropriation of a fcAV hundred dollars b}^ the Leg- 

 islature for sets of camera slides and prepared lectures 

 might supplement the Avork being undertaken by our State 

 Forester. 



Approved b}' the committee, 



FRANCIS H. APPLETON, 



Chairman. 



