138 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1900. 



neer appointed by a governor, with the right of appeal to the 

 county commissioners. 



Bicycle paths can be very easily and cheaply made at the side 

 of all roads. These State roads are not as agreeable to ride 

 upon as a good dirt road. 



The State debt has increased already to $14,000,000, more 

 than $2,000,000 of which is for State roads. It has increased 

 more than three-fold in five years. These great expenditures 

 eventually appear in higher taxes, still more depreciation in 

 value of farm properties, making rents higher, prices for food 

 and clothing higher, and thus giving less and less of the comforts, 

 and luxuries of life to the wage earners and all other classes. 



Warren C. Jewett, Master of the State Grange, spoke of 

 the great work the Patrons of Husbandry are doing in Massachu- 

 setts and in the whole country. 



Prof. A. A. Brigham of Rhode Island Agricultural College, 

 discussing "The feathered friends of the garden and the farm," 

 made a plea for more nature study, and especially of the birds 

 and domestic fowl. 



Col. Henry W. Wilson of Boston, a member of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society, said he had never seen in that 

 society such a gathering as the one before him. He pleaded for 

 honesty in agriculture. 



This closed the speechmaking, and the party adjourned to the 

 lower hall for dancing to the music of Bicknell's orchestra. 



At the guest table in the banquet hall were seated President 

 O. B. Had wen and wife, Mayor R. B. Dodge, Jr., and wife, 

 Hon. J. H. Walker and wife, Prof. A. A. Brigham, Prof. S. T. 

 Maynard, Warren C. Jewett and wife, J. W. Stockwell of 

 Sutton, Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, J. C. E. 

 Farnham, President of Rhode Island Agricultural Society, and 

 wife, Col. Henry W. Wilson of Boston, Supt. C. F. Carroll and 

 wife, Rev. Dr. Willard Scott, Hon. Nathaniel Paine, Ex-Mayor 

 Henry A. Marsh and wife, Ex-Mayor F. A. Harrington, Secre- 



