SPECIAL MEETING OF THE BOAKD OF AGKICULTURE 

 AT GREAT BARRINGTON. 



Great Baerington, Mass., Dec. 5, 1893. 



The Board of Agriculture met at the town hall, Great 

 Barrington, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 1893, at 9.50 o'clock in the 

 forenoon, in conformity with the vote of adjournment at the 

 last annual meeting, with the exception that the Board met 

 in the forenoon instead of in the evening. The Board was 

 called to order by Hon. James S. Grinnell, who presided. 



Present : Messrs. Appleton, Bancroft, Barton, Bursley, 

 Cook, Cruickshanks, Damon, French, Goodell, Grinnell, 

 Harwood, Hartshorn, Hersey, Newhall, Pratt, Reed, G. C. 

 Rowley, J. H. Rowley, Sargent, Shaw, Ward, Warren, 

 West and Wood. 



The secretary read from the proceedings of the last annual 

 meeting, and suggested that the executive committee report 

 upon the standing of the Bay State Agricultural Society and 

 other societies. 



Mr. Wood, chairman of the executive committee, read the 

 statement of facts upon which the opinion of the Attorney- 

 General was based, and also the opinion itself. 



President H. H. Goodell moved that the legislative com- 

 mittee be instructed to petition the Legislature for such 

 a provision of law as will enable the Massachusetts So- 

 ciety for Promoting Agriculture to be represented on the 

 Board. 



Mr. Hersey seconded the motion, spoke of the early 

 work of the Massachusetts Society in the formation of agri- 

 cultural clubs and societies, and referred particularly to the 



