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might by urged in favor of the somewhat unsettled policy which 

 seems to prevail ; yet we feel that much might be done to speed- 

 ily remedy many of the evils we have enumerated. 



A. P. Slade. 



T. D. Thatcher. 



THIRD DAY. 



The Board met at 10 o'clock, A. M. 



Present: Messrs. Baker, Bassett, Blair, Boise, Brown, Clem- 

 ent, Ellsworth, Hubbard, Alexander Hyde, Johnson, Knowlton, 

 Loring, Moore, Morton, Porter, Plunkett, Thatcher, Tliompson, 

 Saltonstall, Slade, Stone, Ward and Wilder. 



Mr. Thatcher, of Lee, in the chair. 



After a discussion in regard to the powers and duties of the 

 Board as Overseers of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, • 

 it was 



Voted, To take the paper upon Farmers' Institutes from the 

 table and refer it to a committee of three. 



This committee was constituted by the appointment of Messrs. 

 Alexander Hyde, Thompson and Saltonstall. 



The mode of feeding stock was then considered at consider- 

 able length, when the Board adjourned to Monday the 31st. 



FOURTH DAY. 



The Board met at 11 o'clock, A. M., Hon Albert Fearing, of 

 Hingham, in tlie chair. 

 It was 



Voted, To appoint a committee to report a list of subjects for 

 investigation, and to nominate committees on essays. 



Messrs. Clark, Birnie and Stone were constituted the com- 

 mittee. 



Voted, To appoint a committee to consider and report upon 

 the time and place of holding the country meeting. 



Messrs. Bradford, Johnson and Thompson. 



