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monwealth, be requested to organize an annual meeting for 

 lectures and discussions at such time and place as may be con- 

 venient to each society ; these meetings to be denominated The 

 Farmers' Institutes of Massachusetts. 

 Adjourned. 



Fourth Day. 



The Board met at ten o'clock, A. M,, Mr. Peck in the chair. 



Present: Messrs. Agassiz, Allis, Baker, Birnie, Boise, Brown, 

 Bucklin, Clark, Ellsworth, Fearing, Goodman, Hubbard, Hyde, 

 Johnson, Knowlton, Ladd, Loring, Moore, Peck, Phinney, Salt- 

 onstall, Slade, Stone, Vincent, Ward and Wilder. 



Dr. Loring, from the Committee to select and assign a list 

 of subjects, submitted the following : — 



The Breeding of Domestic Animals. — Messrs. Agassiz, Lor- 

 ing and Hyde. 



Field and Garden Seeds. — Messrs. Moore, Hyde and Clark. 



TJie CuUivation and Use of Forest Trees. — Messrs. Clark, 

 Goodman and Durfee. 



Tlie Cultivation and Preservation of Fruit. — Messrs. Wilder, 

 Fay and Hubbard. 



The Blanagement of the Dairy. — Messrs. Ellsworth, Allis and 

 Phinney. 



Agricultural and Horticidtural Education for Women. — 

 Messrs. Goodman, Wilder and Birnie. 



The Report was accepted and adopted. 



Voted, That each society receiving the bounty of the State 

 be directed to publish a catalogue of its members, in connection 

 with the Transactions of the present year, and that, in arranging 

 this catalogue, the occupation of each member be set down 

 against his name. 



Mr. Johnson submitted an essay on the 



TIME OF CUTTING AND MODE OF CURING HAY. 



It will doubtless be remembered that we presented a rather 

 hastily written essay upon this subject (by appointment) last 



