236 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



TIlb Dairy. — Messrs. Keith, Tidd, Huntington, and Hubbard. 



Fruit Culture. — Messrs. Thompson, Clement, and Bull. 



Farm Fences. — Messrs. Grout, Adams, and Johnson. 



Making and Application of Manures. — Messrs. Perkins, Sted- 

 man, and Homer. 



Farm Accounts. — Messrs. Garfield, Stedman, and Perkins. 



Fecundation, Gestation, and Parturition of Domestic Animals. 

 — Messrs. Agassiz, Loring, and Matthew Smith. 



Farming as an Occupation. — Messrs. Moore, Huntington, and 

 Adams. 



Management of Woodlands and Forest Trees. — Messrs. Clem- 

 ent, Taft, and Kenrick. 



Sheep Husbandry. — Messrs. Loring, Keith, and Matthew Smith. 



Adaptation of Crops to Soils, ^c. — Messrs. Stedman, J. M. 

 Smith, and Grout. 



Raising and Preservation of Seeds. — Messrs. Huntington, 

 Stedman, and Hubbard. 



Drainage. — Messrs. Saltonstall, Perkins, and Clement. 



Committee on Meetings. — Messrs. Loring, Agassiz, and Keith. 



Voted, To appoint a committee of three to take action upon 

 the resolutions relating to the agricultural college — Messrs. 

 Loring, Bull, and Perkins. 



It was voted, that the public meeting for lectures and 

 discussions be held at Worcester, on Tuesday, the 12th of 

 December. 



Adjourned. 



In accordance with a vote of the Board, the following was 

 presented as the Report of the Committee on 



GRAPE CULTURE. 



BY E. W. BULL. 



The past season has been peculiarly favorable to the grape, 

 and many of the tender and uncertain varieties have been 

 ripened much better than usual. These circumstances are 

 likely to add to the interest now so largely felt by the public in 

 grape culture, and to quicken the purpose which many enter- 

 tain of planting vineyards ; your committee propose, therefore, 

 to notice the, in their judgment, best methods of planting, and 

 the necessity of certain precautions to secure success. Perhaps 



