384 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



page 339 of this Report, has been promptly adopted by the Mid- 

 dlesex North Agricultural Society, which called an Institute 

 meeting at Lowell, on the 5th of April, for the purpose of lec- 

 tures and discussions. That meeting was well attended, and 

 was productive of good results ; and though the season of the 

 year was unpropitious, at the opening of the active labors of 

 the spring, it clearly proved the possibility of great and substan- 

 tial good to be accomplished by the Farmers' Institutes of 

 Massachusetts. It is believed that other societies will find this 

 the means of awakening a greater degree of public interest, of 

 diffusing valuable information, and of fulfilling their important 

 mission among the people of this Commonwealth. 



CHARLES L. FLIIS^T, 



Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture. 

 Boston, January 25, 1871. 



