98 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Evening Session. 



The meeting was called to order at eight o'clock by the 

 Secretary, who said : — 



I take great pleasure in being able to announce to you 

 that Mr. William H. Bowker, a graduate of the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College, will preside this evening. Mr. 

 Bowker was a member of the first class o-raduated, and it 

 seems to be quite fitting that he should preside over a meet- 

 ing which is to l)e addressed by his old teacher, Professor 

 GooDELL, who has been a teacher at the CoUcije from the 

 start. 



Mr. Bowker. It gives me great pleasure to come here 

 this evening and introduce my old teacher to you. If you 

 knew him as I have known him, almost from l)oyhood, — for 

 he was a boy when he taught me, — you would know that 

 the gentleman who is to address you to-night is one who has 

 been loyal to the cause of education wherever he has taken it 

 up, whether in his first school at Easthampton or in the larger 

 school at Amherst ; he has been loyal to the cause of industrial 

 education, and always ready to defend it at all times and 

 under all circumstances. I have had very interesting con- 

 versations with him about this lecture which he is to deliver 

 to you this evening, and, if he tells you some of the interest- 

 ing stories that he has told me Avith reference to his experi- 

 ence in l)uying cattle, and what took place when he bought 

 them, I know you will be very much entertained as well as 

 interested. 



I liave the pleasure, ladies and gentlemen, of presenting 

 to you President Goodell, who will speak to you on " The 

 Channel Islands and their Agriculture." 



President Goodell. Mr, Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, 

 I am very glad that Mr. Bowker has told you, in the first 

 place, that I was a mere boy when I instructed him, other- 

 wise I am afraid you wouhl consider me an old man. I do 

 not propose to be an okl man, although this year completes 

 the quarter-century of service that I have given to the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural College. 



