4 MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY. 



The whole number of the Alderney stock now in my care is 

 eleven. A daguerreotype has been taken of the original stock, 

 at the repeated desire of W. S. King, Esq., Editor of the Jour- 

 nal of Agriculture, from which engravings will be made. 



The records also show that a committee was appointed, at 

 the request of the Agricultural Convention, to attend their 

 meeting, and by their report, it appeared that the gentlemen 

 composing that Board were desirous of giving a wide, gratu- 

 itous circulation to some of the reports which had been made 

 to them on various subjects of agricultural interest. But 

 being, as yet, a voluntary association, they were without the 

 necessary funds to defray the expense. The Trustees at once 

 authorized the delegates to this Board from their own number, 

 (Messrs. Gray, Everett and Winthrop,) to advance the sum 

 of ^300 for the distribution of these reports, and it is hoped 

 that the measure was not without beneficial results. At all 

 events, it was an earnest of sincere desire of the Trustees to 

 encourage, to the extent of the means at their disposal, every 

 attempt to promote the cause of agricultural information. 

 The State Board of Agriculture, having since been organized 

 under the laws of the Commonwealth, will doubtless hereafter 

 have sufficient resources at their own command, and they have 

 the best wishes of the Trustees of the State Society for the 

 successful accomplishment of all their designs. 



A report, also, of Dr. Warren, chairman of the committee 

 on the diseases of animals, was made to the Trustees, in 

 which he refers to the importance of improving the knowledge 

 and treatment of the diseases of horses and cattle. After 

 unsuccessful attempts to establish a course of lectures on 

 anatomy and diseases of the horse, the committee at length 

 succeeded in obtaining the aid of a gentleman, (Dr. Slade,) who 

 had been some years in Europe, and improved such opportu- 

 nities as presented, to acquaint himself with veterinary sci- 

 ence. The Trustees have therefore engaged this gentleman to 

 give as many lectures as may be thought useful, at the rate 

 of one a week, beginning about the middle of the present 

 month of January, 1853. It is proposed, if proper arrange- 

 ments can be made, to open them to all members of the legis- 



