118 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



SECOND DAY. 



The meeting was called to order at half-past nine o'clock, 

 Mr. Grinnell in the chair. 



The Chairman. The Executive Committee, gentlemen, 

 have requested me to preside over the meeting to-day, I 

 suppose as a matter of compliment to me as being the sole 

 survivor of the first body of the Board of Agriculture estab- 

 lished in this State, the last original member of the Board. 



The inception and the object of the Board of Agriculture 

 and its accomplishments were so ably set forth by our elo- 

 quent chairman, yesterday, that it needs nothing further 

 from me. It is a pleasure for us to meet and continue our 

 association year after year. It is a great pleasure to meet 

 the farmers and the people of the vicinity in which we hold 

 our meetings, and the benefits of these meetings are and 

 have been great. There is one thing to which I wish to al- 

 lude, and that is, the results of our meeting, our essays, and 

 of our discussions. I regard as among the most valuable 

 part of the proceedings the admirable reports of our Board 

 which have been published for thirty-five years, and have 

 been taken as models by many Boards of Agriculture in 

 other States. Commenced as they were in a most admirable 

 manner, and continued in the same way, they form a great 

 addition to a farmer's Hljrary, and I know that many an 

 evening hour is whiled away by the perusal of those volumes 

 at many farmers' firesides. These reports grow in value 

 every year; and, as valuable as they have been, it is cer- 

 tainly proper that I should say that they have lost nothing 

 of their value and their interest, nor of the admirable man- 

 ner in which they are arranged, under our present secretary, 

 who has accomplished all that the best of his friends wished 

 for him when they elected him two years ago. [Applause.] 

 Our yesterday's discussions were upon the means of fertili- 

 zation and of raising crops ; to-day the programme turns 

 mostly upon the results of those means upon the crops 



