14 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



that much good would grow out of a meeting between the com- 

 mittee and the members of the Massachusetts Association for 

 the Promotion of Agriculture. By conference, views could be 

 elicited, and information procured that could not otherwise l)e 

 had. • He had no doubt the old society would be glad to hold 

 guch conference. 



Mr. Loring moved to amend the motion so that the committee 

 should submit their report to the State Board of Agriculture. 



Mr. Wilder considered the resolution exactly counter to that 

 passed. Tlie State Board was recommended to hold a State exhi- 

 bition whenever money was granted for that purpose, Avhich was 

 a compromise proposition ; and it did ]\ot appear proper, to his 

 mind, to restore a motion which the compromise had superseded. 



Mr. Brooks insisted that as the western members of the 

 meeting were tenacious of the passage of the resolution, it 

 should not be withdrawn. 



Mr. Loomis was of the belief, after consideration, that the 

 proposition was of a dictatorial or threatening character, and 

 he was therefore of opinion that it should not pass. 



The resolution was put and passed ; and the first of the reso- 

 lutions previously passed having been read by request of Mr. 

 Wilder, the conflict between it and the one just passed was very 

 obvious. 



Mr. Phinney proposed to withdraw the resolution ; but a vote 

 having passed on it, reconsideration and leave were lirst required. 



Reconsideration took place, and leave being granted, the reso- 

 lution was withdrawn. 



The chairman made a few closing observations on the pros- 

 perity which had attended the agricultural societies in the 

 ►^tate, after which, the meeting, on motion of Mr. Wilder, passed 

 a vote of thanks to the chair, and adjourned. 



A special meeting of the Board of Agriculture was called to 

 consider the subject embodied in the second and third resolu- 

 tions passed at the meeting, and it was — 



Resolved, That in tlie opinion of this IJoard, it is expedient 

 to hold a State Cattle Show and Agricultural Pair, at some time 

 in the months of Se})tember or October next, and that a commit- 

 tee now be appointed to make arrangements for the same, with au- 

 thority to fix on a time and place for holding the same, j)rovided 

 a suflicient guarantee fund is pledged to defray the expenses. 



In accordance with the above resolution, Messrs.' M. P. Wilder, 

 Samuel Chandler, John Brooks, George Marston, William G. 

 Lewis, Moses Newell, and Thomas J. Field, were constituted 

 a committee of arrangements. It was subsequently 



