MEETING AT FRAMINGIIAM. 11 



large present expenditures, if necessary, that this disease, like 

 the contagious pleuro-pneumonia, may be at once and forever 

 " stamped out." This, by rightly directed measure, can un- 

 doubtedly be done without resorting to the extreme remedy of 

 slaughtering the infected herds. That we may be enabled 

 effectually to discharge the duties which the law imposes upon 

 us, to at once arrest and eradicate this new enemy to our great 

 stock interest, an appropriation by the legislature seems to be 

 necessary, and at the earliest possible day. Should the progress 

 of the disease be such" as to require any further legal enact- 

 ments or the modification of those under which we are now 

 acting, to assist us in our work, or should its development make 

 it necessary for the intelligent action of the legislature or the 

 good of the people, the Commissioners will present a supple- 

 mentary report. 



Levi Stockbridge, 

 E. F. Thayer, 

 H. W. Jordan, 



Commissioners on Contagious Diseases among Cattle. 



Boston, January 10, 1871. 

 PUBLIC MEETIIsTG OF THE BOAED, 



At FRAMINGHAM. 



The usual country meeting of the State Board of Agricul- 

 ture was held at the Town Hall, in Framingham, on Tuesday, 

 Wednesday, and Thursday, Dec. 13th, 14th, and 15th. 



The Board was called to order at 12 o'clock, on Tuesday, by 

 Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, Chairman of the Committee on 

 Meetings, who, after remarks of welcome by Hon. C. C. Esty, 

 on the part of the citizens of the town, and by George W. 

 Brown, in behalf of the Middlesex South Agricultural Society, 

 addressed the meeting as follows : — 



MR. WILDER'S ADDRESS. 



Gentlemen of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture : In 

 the performance of the duty enjoined on me as Chairman of the 

 Committee of Arrangements, I solicit your attention to a few 

 remarks by way of commencing the business of this session. 



