PUBLIC WINTEE MEETING OF THE BOAED, 



AT GREAT BARRINGTON". 



The annual public winter meeting of the Board was held 

 in the town hall of Great Barrington, beginning on Tues- 

 day, December 5, and continuing through the two following 

 davs. There was a laro:e attendance, and the g-eneral feeling 

 was that the interest of the meeting had been greater than 

 usual. 



The forenoon was devoted to a business meeting of the 

 Board. In the afternoon, at half-past 2 o'clock, Mr. H. A. 

 Barton, Jr., of Dalton, called the meeting to order and 

 invited the Eev. I. S. Hartley, D.D., of Great Barrington, 

 to offer prayer. 



Mr. Barton. A welcome will now be extended to the 

 members of the State Board and to the farmers of the State 

 by Hon. J. H. Rowley, delegate from the Housatonic Agri- 

 cultund Society. 



ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 



BY HON. J. H. BOWLET, EGRBMONT. 



Gentlemen of the State Board of Agriculture : We have 

 met in this place in response to an invitation from the 

 Housatonic Agricultural Society. Associated with the 

 Board and the Housatonic Society, it is my privilege, as well 

 as pleasure, to extend to you a cordial welcome to Southern 

 Berkshire. 



Nine years have come and gone since the State Board of 

 Agriculture met in this room. As it was the first meeting 

 ever held in this locality, its object and purpose being 

 imperfectly understood, the meeting was not as well at- 



