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NE\T ENGLAND FARMER. 



June 



above description, I am pretty sure I have got 

 a good one, and think the above marks are a very 

 sale guide to purchase by. I have lately been 

 reading Guenon's Treatise on Milch Cows, and find 

 it a good -work. Ilia ideas on diseases and their 

 treatment are vt'orth knowing. His books only costs 

 thirty-seven and a half cents. 



Now, Mr. Editor, I have complied with your 

 request, in a very fecl)Ie manner, and will only 

 say, that I hope you will extend the same invita- 

 tion to some other person more competent than 

 myself, and thereby get more and better ideas. 



John M. Tyler. 



PeViam, N. H., March 31. 1854. 



STATE BOAED OF AGEICULTURE. 



Met at tue State llouss April 10, 1854. 



His Excellency, Gov. Warhiiurn, presided. 



The committee appointed to consider the terms 

 and receive the transfer of the farm, reported that 

 tlicy had met a committee from the Board of Trus- 

 tees, at the farm, on the 24th of March last, and 

 completed the transfer, and passed over into the 

 hands of the Board of Agriculture, all the land, 

 with the exception of an acre or two immediately 

 about the institution, ifeogcther with the stock, 

 fodder, farm implements, &c. &c. On the 29th of 

 the same month, the same committees made an ap- 

 praisal of the property, of all sorts, and entered 

 the same upon the instrument of transfer. 



The act authorizing the transfer was then ac- 

 cepted by the Board, together with the agreement 

 and the appraisal of the committees, and the whole 

 report of the committee was accepted. 



The Board then adopted a code of By-laws, for 

 the future government of its affairs, the second 

 section of which is as follows : — 



Sect. 2. — There shall be annually elected by the 

 Board, a superintending committc of the farm at 

 Westboro', consisting of eight members, whose 

 duty it shall be to meet at the farm once in each 

 month, and oftener if they deem it necessary, to 

 make such arrangements and give such directions 

 to the farmer as the various crops, trees, stock, 

 and other interests of the farm may require. Tliis 

 committee may be sub-divided, and give direction 

 to its divisions at its own discretion, and shall re- 

 port fully to the Board at each of its quarterly 

 meetings. 



The committee appointed under this section is 

 as follows : 



Marshall P. Wilder, 



Moses Newell, 



Simon Brown, 



B. V. Frencu, 



John Brooks, 



J. A. Nasu, 



Henry M. Clai-i-, 



Seth Sprague. 

 The Board then directed that the committee ap- 

 pointed to superintendent the farm operations, 

 cause a survey of the farm to be made, with a plan 

 of the whole, accompanied with suggestions for 

 general improvements, to be submitted to this 

 Board at the quarterly meeting in July. 



Messrs. Brown, Wilder and Wright were 

 elected a committe on Finance, 



Messrs. Page, Brewer and Smith were apjwint- 

 ed a committee to audit the accounts at the close- 

 of the fiscal year. 



After the several items of business had been dis- 

 posed of, there Avas a general conversation, occu- 

 pying considerable time, in which the members of 

 the Board expressed their opinions of the true 

 mode of managing the farm, and it was found that 

 upon most of the important points, there was a 

 harmony of opinion which promises much in all 

 future operations. 



On Wednesday, April 11, the superintending 

 committee met at the farm, and after a general 

 survey of the fields, pastures, stock, impalements, 

 &c., assembled at the farm house, and organized 

 the committee by the election of Mr. French, of 

 Braintree, as chairman. It was then ro/f^, 1. To" 

 direct the farmer to prepare the land for such 

 crops as it is contemplated to put in this springs 

 according to a schedule heretofore prepared by Mr, 

 Brown and the Farmer, and now laid before the 

 committee. 



2. To sub-divide the committee of eight intO' 

 four sub-committees, as follows: — 1. On the sur- 

 vey, plan, and general improvement of the farm, 



2. On the purchase, sale, and feeding of stock. 



3. On the field and garden crops. 4. On provid- 

 ing and regulating the labor. And the sub-com- 

 mittees were elected as follows : 



On general improvements^' Messrs. Brown and 

 French. 



On the purchase, sale, and feeding of stock, 

 Messrs. Brooks and Newell, 



On the field and garden crops, Messrs. Wilder 

 and Nasu. 



On providing and regulating the labor, Messrs. 

 Sprague and Clapp. 



The operative forces for the present management 

 of the farm are now complete, as in addition to 

 the duties detailed and specially assigned, the 

 secretary of the Board will have a general super- 

 vision of the whole, and from time to time suggest 

 whatever may seem to him to be deficient in the 

 plan of operation, or whatever of additional ener- 

 gy ought to be imparted to it in order that it shall 

 succeed. 



But any striking results, either in the crojis or 

 tlie general improvement of the land, cannot rea- 

 sonably be expected for the present. It must be a 

 work of time to accomplish either. What lands 

 are best adapted to particular crops, what fertili- 

 zers are best for these crops, what depth to plow, 

 and when to sow and plant, are all questions 

 which must be decided by careful practice and 

 experiment. And so it must be with the stock 

 and fruits. We can only hope, now, that the 

 Board will bring its collective wisdom to bear up- 

 on a single point, viz : — that it will make a corr£Ct 



