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designating premiums in accordance with the facts that ap- 

 pear from the correspondence with other State boards and 

 societies. 



Boston, June 27, 1893. 



The executive committee this day excused the Union 

 Agricultural and Horticultural Society, on its request, from 

 employing experts as judges in the several classes at the 

 fair of the society for the year 1893, the reason for the ex- 

 cuse being that the society had appointed the judges at its 

 annual meeting in December and had printed a list of such 

 judges in the society's transactions previous to the annual 

 meeting of the Board at which the rule requiring the em- 

 ployment of expert judges was adopted. 



Boston, Sept. 13, 1893. 



The executive committee this day excused the Middlesex 

 North Agricultural Society from employing experts as judges 

 at the fair of the society for the year 1893, for the same 

 reason that the Union Agricultural Society was excused on 

 June 27, 1893. 



Boston, Oct. 5, 1893. 



The executive committee this day appointed the secretary 

 of the Board of Agriculture delegate of the Board to the 

 agricultural congresses of the World's Columbian Exposi- 

 tion at Chicago during the week beginning Oct. 16, 1893. 



Great Barrington, Dec. 5, 1893. 



Voted, That Mr. William Bancroft, at his request, be ex- 

 cused from preparing an essay on " Sheep on our Western 

 Hills" for the next annual meeting of the Board, and that 

 he prepare an essay, instead, upon "The Pleasures of 

 Farming," 



Boston, Dec. 15, 1893. 



Voted, To refer the reports of the delegates to the fiiirs 

 of the agricultural societies to the secretary, that he may 



