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hard treatment. A better cross' for some of our horses cannot 

 be imagined than those of Normandy, provided they have not 

 the ordinary faihng of too much length from the hock down- 

 ward, and a heavy head." "These two points last named," 

 (Herbert goes on to say,) " are precisely those which are 

 entirely got rid of in the best style of Percheron-Normans, 

 which are, as has been stated, those of the Normans most 

 thoroughly imbued with the Arabian, or, to speak more correctly, 

 Barb blood of Andalusia." 



Such, then, are the horses imported by the trustees of the 

 Massachusetts Society, with the hope that the farmers of Massa- 

 chusetts will avail themselves of the opportunity offered them 

 of crossing their best mares with this renowned stock, and thus 

 obtain an animal uniting more of the qualities essential to them 

 in their agricultural pursuits than can be now found in any 

 State in the Union — a horse which will probably more nearly 

 resemble the Morgan in his best days than now exists. 



"Wednesday, Feb. 1. 



The Board met at 10 o'clock according to adjournment. 



Present, Messrs. Adams, Agassiz, Bull, Clement, Garfield, 

 Grout, Homer, Hubbard, Huntington, Johnson, Keith, Ken- 

 rick, Loring, Moore, Perkins, Saltonstall, Matthew Smith, J. 

 M. Smith, Stedman, Stockbridge, Thompson and Tidd. 



Mr. Grout in the Chair. 



Messrs. Tidd, Stockbridge and Adams, having been appointed 

 a committee on credentials of new members, reported that the 

 following members were duly elected, viz. : 



* Leverett Saltonstall, of Newton, by the Massachusetts Society 

 for Promoting Agriculture. 



Asa Clement, of Dracut, by the Middlesex North. 



Newton S. Hubbard, of Brimfield, by the Worcester South. 



Velorous Taft, of Upton, by the Worcester South-East. 



Levi Stockbridge, of Hadley, by the Hampshire. 



John M. Smith, of Sunderland, by the Franklin. 



John Kenrick, of Orleans, by the Barnstable. 



Daniel A. Cleaveland, by the Martha's Vineyard Society. 



On motion of Mr. Huntington it was 



