338 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Voted, That no society receiving the bounty of the State 

 shall, after the jircsent year, bestow any premiums or gratuities 

 on grade or native bulls. 



Voted, That any society joining with the New P]ngland 

 Agricultural Society's exhibition have authority to change its 

 time to conform to that. 



Dr. LoRiNG, from the committee appointed to select a list of 

 subjects for investigation, submitted the following preliminary 



REPORT: 



They would recommend that the members of the Board be 

 directed to prepare accurate and elaborate statements of the 

 condition of agriculture in the various sections of the Common- 

 wealth, and that a list of questions be prepared for their guid- 

 ance in the preparation of these reports. In making this 

 recommendation, the Committee would be understood as con- 

 fining each delegate to the locality included in his society. 



(Signed) Geo. B. Loring. 



Jas. F. C. Hyde. 



W. S. Clark. 



This Report was accepted and adopted, the questions to be 

 prepared by the committee, to which the Secretary was added. 



A paper was presented by the Secretary, as the First Annual 

 Report of Dr. Packard, as the Entomologist to the Board, to 

 which position he was appointed at the Amherst Meeting of the 

 Board in August last. 



Voted, That the thanks of the Board be presented to Dr. 

 Packard for his valuable paper on insects, and that it be pub- 

 lished in the Secretary's Report. 



The Committee on Printing was constituted by the appoint- 

 ment of Messrs. Goodman, Moore and the Secretary. 



The Examining Committee of the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College was constituted of Messrs. Agassiz, Fay, Knowlton, 

 Hubbard and Johnson. 



Voted, That the various Agricultural Societies of the Com- 



