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Agricultural Society, and that the president and secretaries be 

 requested to inform the societies of this resolution. 



First Meeting of the Massachusetts Board of Agri- 

 culture. 



This association, composed of three delegates from each of 

 the incorporated Agricultural Societies in the Commonwealth, 

 was convened September 3d, 1851, at the State House in Bos- 

 ton. On motion, it was ascertained that delegates from all of 

 the fourteen County Societies were present, and that the State 

 Society was also represented. 



The following list of officers, for a permanent organization 

 of the board, was reported and accepted : — 



Marshall P. Wilder, President. 

 Henry W. Cushman, 



_,,__. . Vice Presidents. 



John W. Lincoln, 



Allen W. Dodge, Corresponding- Secretary. 



Edgar K. Whitaker, Recording Secretary. 



The President stated, briefly, the objects of the organization 

 of the board, and especially directed attention to the great im- 

 portance of concert of action on the part of the different so- 

 cieties. 



John C. Gray, of the State Society, recommended that a 

 committee be chosen, to report business to the board, and that 

 said committee be constituted from the local societies. The 

 State Society had set the example of instituting .annual shows, 

 and the County Societies had adopted the same course, and had 

 even eclipsed the parent society. Mr. Gray gave a highly in- 

 structive statement in relation to the movements of the State 

 Society, and the efforts it was now making to obtain from Eu- 

 rope the most valuable kinds of slock to improve our own. 



On motion, voted, that Messrs. B. V. French, J. W. Proctor, 

 and George Denny, be a committee to report business to the 

 board. 



