374 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



to comply with his promise, and furnish an article which is 

 worth in the general market the price charged. In case his 

 present mode of manufacture does not secure a desirable uni- 

 form composition of his fertilizer, all he has to do is to apply 

 more rational means to obtain that end. 



Some manufacturers of fertilizers have, apparently, thus far, 

 confined themselves too exclusively to the task of teaching the 

 farmers how to use the articles which they chance to prepare 

 for them. It seems not out of place, on the part of the farmer, 

 to return the compliment, by reminding them that their mutual 

 interests will be benefited by the introduction of a better 

 system in their mode of manufacture, and by more intelligent 

 analytical statements concerning the composition of the fertil- 

 izer they offer fcr sale. 



Charles A. Goessmann, 



Slate hiH-pector of Feriilizers. 

 Amherst, Mass., Feb. 2, 1874. 



The report was accepted. 



Voted, To appoint a committee of three to consider and re- 

 port a list of subjects for essays, to be assigned to committees 

 for investigation. Messrs. Chadbourne, Clark and Sturtevant. 



Voted, To hold the next country meeting at Westfield, Dec. 

 1st, 2d and 3d. 



Voted, To appoint a committee of three to consider and 

 report upon the assignment of delegates. Messrs. Slade, 

 Graves and Leavitt. 



Mr. Slade stated that Dr. E. L. Sturtevant, had prepared 

 a paper containing some further information upon the globules 

 in milk, to which he had called the attention of the Board at 

 the public meeting at Fitchburg, as stated on pp. 93 and 95, 

 and asked leave, which was granted, to submit it as follows : — 



MILK: 



Some Considerations concerning its Morphology. 

 The philosophy of breeding teaches that every observed 

 effect must have been preceded by an adequate cause, and 

 that intelligence and skilled observation may enable our rea- 

 son to trace out the sequences which connect the one with the 

 other with such exactitude as is permissible to our knowledge. 



