232 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



The committee on Agricultural College and education, by 

 Mr. Bursley, chairman, reported recommending that the 

 next public winter meeting be held at Westfield, on invi- 

 tation of the Union Agricultural and Horticultural Society 

 and the citizens of Westfield. 



Voted, To accept the report, and that the next public 

 winter meeting be held at Westfield, Dec. 5-7, 1899. 



Voted, That the Chair appoint a local committee of five, 

 to act with the secretary and the committee on Agricultural 

 College and education as a committee of arrangements. 

 The Chair appointed Messrs. A. W. Lloyd, O. P. Allen, C. 

 K. Brewster, D. A. Horton and W. B. Barton. 



The matter of representation of Massachusetts agriculture 

 at the Paris Exposition of 1900 being in order, on motion 

 of General Appleton, it was 



Voted, That the Board heartily approves of the movement 

 to secure as ample an exhibition of the agriculture of Massa- 

 chusetts at the Paris Exposition of 1900 as shall be found 

 possible, and recognizes the Agricultural College and Ex- 

 periment Station faculties as those bodies best fitted to 

 arrange such an exhibit in behalf of this State. 



The secretary reported the delinquencies of certain soci- 

 eties in making required returns. 



Voted, That the matter of delinquencies be referred to 

 the executive committee, with power to excuse the societies 

 if they present reasonable excuses. 



Voted, That the executive committee be instructed to 

 appear for the Board before committees of the Legislature 

 when matters of interest to this Board are being heard, and 

 that it be empowered to invite such other persons as it may 

 think proper to assist at such hearings. 



The committee on agricultural societies, by Mr. Kilbourn, 

 chairman, reported recommending that the date for the com- 

 mencement of the fair of the Blackstone Valley Agricultural 

 Society be changed to the second Tuesday after the first 

 Monday in September, that of the Franklin County Agri- 



