4 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Voted, That Mr. Francis H. Appleton be requested to pre- 

 pare a bill embodying his ideas of the changes that should 

 be made in the law regulating the distribution of the State 

 bounty to the incorporated societies. 



Voted, That the secretary correspond with the secretaries 

 of the several societies and ascertain what subjects the soci- 

 eties would like to have discussed by the speakers in the cir- 

 cuit of institutes for 1894: ; also the speakers desired by the 

 several societies. 



Boston, June 8, 1893. 



Voted, That the executive committee decline to grant the 

 petition of the Barnstable County Agricultural Society to 

 be excused from employing experts as judges at the 1893 

 fair of the society on account of expense to the society. The 

 committee believes that the expense incurred need not be 

 large, as the rule of the Board does not forbid the employ- 

 ment of experts within the limits of the society. 



Mr. Wood, for the committee to whom was referred the 

 matter of a scale of points for judging fruits, reported a 

 scale of points ; which was adopted by the committee. 



Voted, That the secretary make a list of men suitable to 

 act as experts in the different classes in which the Board re- 

 quires experts, including the names suggested by the mem- 

 bers of the Board, with such additions as may be suggested 

 by the members of the executive committee, and send a copy 

 of the list, when completed, to the secretaries of the several 

 societies. 



Boston, June 15, 1893. 



Mr. Raavson, for the committee on scale of points for judg- 

 ing vegetables, reported that he was not ready to submit a 

 copy of the report. 



Voted, That the committee have further time, and that it 

 is hereby instructed to present the secretary with a copy of 

 the proposed scale of points for vegetables, with illustrations 



