304 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



The Board was called to order at 2.30 r.M., Mr. Grinnell 

 in the chair. 



Report of the Board of Control of the Experiment Station 

 presented by the director, Dr. Goessmann, and accepted. 



W. W. Rawson read an essay on " Market Gardening," 

 which was accepted, and will be found printed in this volume. 



The Conmiittce on Time and Place for holding the Public 

 Meeting reported, by their chairman, that the meeting should 

 be held at Fitchburg on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs- 

 day, December 3, 4 and 5. The report was accepted and 

 adopted. 



The Committee on Essays for next Annual Meeting re- 

 ported as follows : — 



Essays. 



Agricultural Societies and their Management, . J. H. Rowley. 



Choosing an Occupation, J. H. Goddard. 



Tuberculosis, Dk. Wm. IIolbrook. 



Soils of Massachusetts, N. S. Shaleu. 



Messrs. Hickox, Howe, Horton, Cushman and Taft were 

 appointed a committee to attend the Legislative Committee 

 hearing on Friday next in the interest of Honest Butter. 



Voted, That the Board of Agriculture petition the Legis- 

 lature, in aid of the petition of the Board of Control of the 

 State Experiment Station, for an appropriation for the erec- 

 tion of suitable buildings to accommodate the department of 

 Vegetable Physiology, and that the Chairman and Secretary 

 sign said petition for the Board. 



Adjourned to 9.30 a.m., Thursday. 



