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for new avenues of usefulness. Other opportunities are 

 opening before us. Tlie Legislature of 1891 provided an- 

 other clerk for the office, and the time is not far distant 

 when still another will be needed. The Board has been 

 criticised for inefficiency in some quarters, but it is believed 

 that no body of men in the State, serving without compen- 

 sation, is more attentive to business or more earnest for the 

 advancement of the interests committed to their charge than 

 the Massachusetts State Board of Aijriculture. 



The Chairman. Gentlemen, if there are any questions 

 you would like to ask the secretary, he will be very happy 

 to answer them, as he always is, not only here, but at his 

 office. 



Gentlemen, we thank you for staying to the end. I shall 

 always remember the pleasant meeting which we have had 

 at Spencer. The meeting is now closed. 



