TILE-MAKING. 22? 



— said they would like to buy the machine and take the business 

 out of my hands. That was all T wanted. They did so, and 

 another person set up opposition, and erected a regular set of 

 tile works, which are there now. That was perhaps fifteen years 

 ago. I will tell you this, as the general conclusion to which I 

 have come in regard to it, that you can make two-inch tiles, 

 which are the best size for ordinary use — for large drains you 

 will want a larger size, but nine-tenths will be of that size — at 

 just about the same price as ordinary brick. That, of course, 

 varies from four or five dollars a thousand to fifteen, with the 

 different localities, but I think that is a fair estimate. They 

 require less clay^ being lighter than brick, but the manufacture 

 is a little more expensive, because they are not so compact and 

 not so easily handled. The transportation will be a little more, 

 because they are more bulky. There is no sort of difficulty in 

 making them. Anybody who knows anything about handling 

 clay could take up the manufacture and go along with it. In 

 England tiles are frequently put into a brick kiln and baked 

 with brick. Any gentleman who is near brick works can help 

 himself in that way, by getting a machine and getting the brick- 

 makers to burn the tiles for him. 

 Adjourned, sine die. 



ANNUAL MEETING IN BOSTON. 



The Board met at the office of the Secretary, in Boston, on 

 Thursday, the 30th of January, at 12 o'clock, M. 



Present, Messrs. Baker, Billings, Birnie, Cleaveland, Clement, 

 Cole, Davis, Durfee, Fearing, Hubbard, Hyde, Johnson, King, 

 Knowlton, Loring, Moore, Porter, Saltonstall, Sanderson, Sewall, 

 Slade, Smith, Thatcher, Thompson, Thomas W. Ward, H. S. 

 Ward, Watkins and Wilder. 



Colonel Wilder was requested to preside, and accordingly 

 occupied the chair. 



After the reading of the records, a committee was appointed 

 to consider and report the order of business for the session, con- 

 sisting of Messrs. Saltonstall, Davis, and Ward of Shrewsbury. 

 This committee subsequently submitted the following :— 



1st. Report of Examining Committee of the Agricultural 

 College, and all other business coming before the Board as 

 Overseers of said College. 



