186 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



ANNUAL MEETING AT BOSTON. 



The Board met in accordance with adjournment, at the office 

 of the Secretary, in Boston. Present, Messrs. Agassiz, Adams, 

 Bull, Clement, Garfield, Grout, Hartwell, Homer, Huntington, 

 Johnson, Keith, Lathrop, Loring, Moore, Perkins, Phinnej, 

 Saltonstall, Sewall, Smith, Stockbridge, Taft, Thompson and 

 Tidd. 



In the absence of his Excellency, the Chairman, Mr. Lathrop 

 was requested to preside, and accordingly took the chair. 



The first day was occupied in the reception of the reports 

 of delegates appointed to attend and report upon the exhibi- 

 tions of the County Agricultural Societies. 



These reports will be found on a subsequent page. 



On Friday the 27th, the attendance being the same as on the 

 first day, with the addition of Mr. Stedman, Mr. Bull, of 

 Concord, was requested to preside, and accordingly took the 

 chair. 



The reports of committees on special subjects being in order, 

 the first presented was the following : 



ON GARDEN VEGETABLES AND BOOT CROPS. 



BY MR. T. G. HUNTINGTON. 



The Committee chosen to report on root crops and garden 

 vegetables, on looking over the field assigned them, soon became 

 convinced that a proper treatment of these subjects would 

 require a larger space than is usually devoted to these reports, 

 besides involving an amount of time and research incompatible 

 with other engagements. They have ventured, therefore, to 

 drop altogether the matter of root crops ; and they were the 

 more ready to do this on recollecting that an elaborate report 

 was presented to the Board but a few years since on this 

 subject. 



Although the conclusions arrived at in this report are such as 

 your committee hardly feel ready to accept, yet as far as the 

 argument is concerned, it must be admitted that the author has 

 good ground for his opinions. 



The economy of root-raising is, to some extent, still a 

 mooted question, and your Committee have no facts, or rather 

 not enough of them to throw into either scale to cause a pre- 



