128 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



THIRD DAY. 



The meeting was called to order at ten o'clock by the 

 chah-man, Hon. J. H. Rowley, who said: Ladies and 

 gentlemen, the lectures of yesterday and the day before 

 have been very interesting, the discussions a])le, and the 

 matter has been presented in such a way that it may be 

 utilized, and perhaps measured by a standard of dollars and 

 cents. The lecture to-day is on a subject which cannot be 

 measured by any such standard. I have the pleasure of 

 introducing to you Prof. George F. Mills, of the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College at Amherst. 



Professor Mills. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the 

 Board, ladies and gentlemen, I thank you very much for your 

 greeting, and presume it may possibly be owing to the fact that 

 some of you know that I am a Berkshire boy, and everything 

 that pertains to Berkshire County strikes a responsive chord 

 in my heart. Although my home was for many years in the 

 extreme northern part, still so far as Berkshire County is con- 

 cerned I know no north, no south, no east, no west, for it is 

 all "my own, my native land." 



