444 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



KEPORT. 



The following report has been transmitted to the secretary 

 of the State Board of Agriculture by His Excellency the 

 Governor, with the request that it be included in the " Agri- 

 culture of Massachusetts." 



Report of the National Farmers' Congress 

 AT Lincoln, ^^b., Nov. 22-24, 1892. 



To His Excellency William E. Russell. 



Having attended the twelfth annual session of the National 

 Farmers' Congress, held at Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 22-24, 1892, as 

 delegate from Massachusetts by Your Excellency's appointment, 

 I take pleasure in forwarding a report of the Congress and my 

 action in connection therewith. 



The city of Lincoln celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary the 

 present year. In accordance with the census of 1890, it has a 

 population of seventy thousand. It is a great commercial, educa- 

 tional and manufacturing centre. 



The State capitol building, built of granite, some of which came 

 from New England, is unique in its style, imposiug in its propor- 

 tions and convenient in its arrangement. The Congress held its 

 sessions in Representative Hall, the Senate Chamber having been 

 fitted up to display the varied fruits, cereals, roots and minerals of 

 the great State of Nebraska. The city government of Lincoln 

 had most tastefully decorated Representative Hall with patriotic 

 emblems, and a grand welcome was extended, by Governor Boyd 

 of Nebraska and Mayor Weir of Lincoln, in behalf of the State 

 and city which they represented, to the visiting delegates who had 

 gathered from nearly every State in the Union. The president of 

 the Congress was the Hon. D. G. Purse of Savannah, Ga. ; the 

 Secretary, Hon. B. F. Clayton of Iowa. 



The purpose of these annual national gatherings is, after radical 

 discussion, to recommend legislation for the consideration of the 

 National Congress at Washington, Avhich shall benefit the varied 

 agricultural industries of the country. Among the laws which 



