1889.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 4. 395 



If no visiting delegate appears at a fair of a society, it 

 shall be the duty of the member from that society to 

 make a report to the Board. 



7. It shall be the duty of the secretary of this Board The secretary 



„ , ". to transmit 



to transmit to the secretary of each society the report npons of 



» ., . .^. , , ^ delegates. 



of the visiting delegate. 



8. The following is established as the standard by Standard by 



,., 1111 . -11 .,1, 1 which cropw 



which crops shall be estimated by weight by the several i-haii bo esu- 

 societies : Indian corn in the cob as taken from the weight. ^ 

 field shall be rated as 80 pounds to a bushel ; a bushel 

 of Indian corn, shelled or dry, shall be 56 pounds ; a 

 bushel of rye 56 pounds ; a bushel of barley 48 pounds ; 

 a bushel of buckwheat 48 lbs ; a bushel of oats 32 

 pounds ; a bushel of wheat 60 pounds ; a bushel of 

 potatoes 60 pounds ; a bushel of carrots 55 pounds ; a 

 bushel of onions 52 pounds ; a bushel of sugar beets 

 60 pounds ; a bushel of mangel wurzel 60 pounds ; a 

 bushel of ruta baga 60 pounds ; a bushel of parsnips 

 45 pounds ; a bushel of common or English turnips 50 

 pounds ; a bushel of white beans 60 pounds ; a bushel 

 of peas 60 pounds. 



9. The various societies are recommended to con- Nomenclature 

 form to the catalogue of the American Pomological 



Society in the nomenclature of fruits at their exhibi- 

 tions and in their publications. 



10. The Board recommend that cattle entered for Cattietobe 

 exhibition be kept on the grounds through the entire grounds. 

 exhibition, and it is required that in any event they be 



kept on exhibition until thi-ee o'clock in the afternoon 

 of the first day. 



11. No society receiving the bounty of the State Premiums on 



u II 1 ^ • ^ •^. T grad.or 



shall bestow any premiums or gratuities on grade or native bulls. 

 native bulls. 



12. Dr. Charles A. Goessmann has been elected the Dr. c. a. 

 chemist to the State Board of Agriculture, and Dr. an'd^Dr.''o?ii. 

 Charles H. Fernald as entomologist to the same Board ; fhemlit'and 

 and as such they are introduced to the farmers of the re'p^uvfiy! 

 Commonwealth. 



12. There shall be a standing committee of six Examining 

 members, called the examining committee of the agri- thr^'ricui.° 

 cultural college, of whom the first two on the list shall ^^^^ *^° ^^^' 

 retire at the end of each year, their places to be filled by 

 election at the annual meeting. It shall be the duty of 

 this committee to act for the Board of Agriculture and to 



