No. 4.] PUBLIC MEETINGS. 213 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON INSTITUTES AND PUBLIC 



MEETINGS. 



[Eeail and accepted at the Amiual Mectmg, Jan. 10, 1005.] 



The summer meeting of the Board of Agriculture was held 

 at Amherst, in order to look t)\er more thoroughly than 

 last year the farm, orchards, gardens and greenhouses ; the 

 meeting last year being so satisfactory that it created a desire 

 to aofain visit the coUesfe rounds, to learn more about the 

 better methods of preparing the soil for crops and feeding 

 animals for milk. 



The winter meeting of the Board was held at South Fram- 

 ingham, and was one of the most successful the Board has 

 ever held. The speakers not only gave information of 

 importance, but clothed it in language the most pleasing. 

 A very large number of people were present at all of the 

 sessions. 



The institute meetings are doing a great work in the 

 farming comnumity. Every year progress is made in feed- 

 ing crops and animals by methods given by the speakers at 

 the institute meetings. Farmers have now nmch better 

 opportunities for learning how to feed crops and animals 

 than when the farmers" institutes were first organized ; and, 

 if present methods had been known then, it would have 

 taken a much longer time foi" the farmers to learn them 

 than it now does because of the institutes. 



Respectfully submitted, 



EDMUND IIEESEY. 

 HENRY S. PEEIIAM. 

 ALBEPtT ELLSAVORTII. 



