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grade cows, and mate them with a sire of the same kind, 

 then the male is half the herd ; he is equal to the cows. 

 The male should bo nine-tenths of the herd, and farmers 

 should be paying for a first-class male, instead of for grades 

 and " scrubs." 



Adjourned at 12 m. 



Afternoon Session. 



Secretary Sessions at 1.30 p.m. called the meeting to 

 order and said : The vice-presidents and the executive com- 

 mittee have directed me to ask Mr. D. A. Horton of North- 

 ampton to preside this afternoon. 



Mr. Horton. In introducing the speaker, I will say, 

 for the information of those who do not know, that he is 

 a Hampshire County boy, a graduate of your Agricultural 

 College, and at the present time professor of agriculture in 

 the Storrs Agricultural College, and also vice-director of 

 the experiment station at Storrs, Conn. Prof. Charles 

 S. Piielps will now address you on " Grasses and other 

 forage crops." 



