230 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



The chairman appointed the standing committees, as fol- 

 lows (the secretary is by rule of the Board a member ex 

 officio of each of the standing committees) : — 



Executive committee : Messrs. E. W. Wood of West Newton, 

 W. A. Kilbourn of South Lancaster, Isaac Damon of Wayland, 

 D. A. Horton of Northampton, John Bursley of West Barnstable, 

 Edmund Hersey of Hingham and Francis H. Appleton of Pea- 

 body. 



Committee on agricultural societies : Messrs. W. A. Kilbourn 

 of South Lancaster, Q. L. Reed of South Weymouth, O. P. Allen 

 of Palmer, N. B. Baker of Savoy and Chas. A. Gleason of New 

 Braintree. 



Committee on domestic animals and sanitation : Messrs. Isaac 

 Damon of Wayland, Oscar S. Thayer of Attleborough, Joshua 

 Clark of Tewksbury, F. L. Whitmore of Sunderland, Almon W. 

 Lloyd of Blandford and Henry A. Howard of Colrain. 



Committee on gypsy moth, insects and birds : Messrs. E. W. 

 Wood of West Newton, Augustus Pratt of North Middleborough, 

 F. W. Sargent of Amesbury, S. S. Stetson of Lakeville and N. 

 I. Bowditch of Framingham. 



Committee on Dairy Bureau and agricultural products : Messrs. 

 D. A. Horton of Northampton, J. L. Ellsworth of Worcester, C. 

 D. Richardson of West Brookfield, C. B. Benedict of Egremont 

 and E. E. Wood of Northampton. 



Committee on Agricultural College and education: Messrs. 

 John Bursley of West Barnstable, C. K. Brewster of Worthing- 

 ton, Wesley B. Barton of Dalton, J. W. Stockwell of Sutton, Geo. 

 P. Smith of Sunderland and Alvan Barrus of Goshen. 



Committee on experiments and station work : Messrs. Edmund 

 Hersey of Hingham, Walton Hall of Marshfield, J. S. Grinnell of 

 Greenfield, T. H. Goodspeed of Athol and J. Elton Green of 

 Spencer. 



Committee on forestry, roads and roadside improvements : 

 Messrs. Francis H. Appleton of Peabody, J. S. Appleton of Nan- 

 tucket, E. A. Davis of West Tisbury, Samuel B. Taft of Ux- 

 bridge and E. M. Thurston of Swansea. 



Which appointments were approved by the Board. 



Election of officers being in order, the chairman declared 

 His Excellency Roger Wolcott president of the Board (by 

 a by-law of the Board the Governor of the Commonwealth 

 is ex officio president ) . 



