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abandoned and partially aljandoned farms. The report was 

 accepted and adopted, and the request for an appropriation 

 of $1,000 for the continuation of the work was approved. 



Voted, That the secretary and the committee on legisla- 

 tion petition the Legislature for a law regulating the sale of 

 commercial feed-stuffs, in accordance with a law proposed by 

 the committee of the Board of Control of the State Agricult- 

 ural Experiment Station. 



At 12.30 the Board adjourned to 2 p.m. 



The Board was called to order at 2 p.m., Mr. Grinnell 

 in the chair. 



Mr. Bancroft, for the committee on change of time for 

 holding fairs, reported that the changes asked for by the 

 Martha's Vineyard, Attleborough, Middlesex North and 

 Middlesex South l)e authorized, and that the Essex Society 

 be allowed to choose between the week preceding and the 

 week following the week on which the Amesbury and Salis- 

 bury Society holds its fair, and that the executive committee 

 bo instructed to ratify, in the name of the Board, the choice 

 thus made. 



Voted, To accept and adopt the report of the committee, 

 and authorize the changes recommended, and to empower 

 the executive committee to decide the case of the Essex 

 Society. 



The secretary read an abstract of the reports of delegates 

 to fairs, which reports were acce})ted. 



The connnittce on place for holding the pu1)lic winter 

 meeting reported, l)y its chairman, that the meeting should 

 be held at Great Barrington. The report was accepted, and 

 the Board voted to hold the next public winter meeting at 

 Great Barring-ton. 



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A committee of arrangements for the public winter meet- 

 ing was a})})ointed : the secretary and Messrs. J. H. Row- 

 lev, Barton, G. C. Rowlev, Bancroft and Mills. 



