SUBJECTS FOR INVESTIGATION. 285 



Domestic and Factory Dairies. — Messrs. Thatcher, Hubbard 

 and Porter. 



Improvement in the Management of our Agricultural Societies. 

 — Messrs. Lorhig, Johnson and Brown. 



The Breeding and Training of Horses. — Messrs. Porter, 

 Ward of Shrewsbury and Sanderson. 



The Potato Crop. — Messrs. Hyde, Slade and Watkins. 



Waste of Manures. — Messrs. H. S. Ward, Cole and Davis. 



Farming as an Occupation — its Advantages as compared with 

 other business. — Messrs. Hubbard, Brown and Bull. 



Commercial Manures. — Messrs. Clement, Morton and Boise. 



Relation of Manufactures to Agriculture. — Messrs. Durfee, 

 Fearing and Baker. 



Fruit Culture and its Preservation. — Messrs. Wilder, Clement 

 and Pierce. 



Draining^ its Effects upon the Soil and Crops, and the Cost of 

 the Different Methods. — Messrs. Moore, Loring and Pierce. 



Nature's Methods of Distributing Plants. — Messrs. Clark 

 and Wilder. 



This Report was accepted and adopted. 



Voted, To appoint a committee of three to examine and 

 report upon the construction of a barn. 



This Committee was constituted by the appointment of 

 Messrs. Hyde, Loring and Moore. 



After referring all unfinished business to the Committee on 

 Printing, the Board adjourned. 



THE FAIRS. 



The exhibitions of the various agricultural societies have been 

 numerously attended during the year, and their influence has 

 been as widely felt as in any former period of their history. 

 These fairs oflfer the most ample facilities for bringing to the 

 knowledge of the people the vast improvements which are taking 

 place in all the departments of farm economy. 



In looking over the returns of the county societies, it is grat- 

 ifying to find that the department of agricultural mechanics has 

 by no means fallen behind any other in extent or interest. Nov- 

 elties are not, to be sure, always improvements ; but every 

 improvement implies a novelty, whether it be in a new principle 



