668 MASS. BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



this Board, must soon be put in course of publication, the 

 committee recommend that the present Secretary pro tern., 

 Hon. Amasa Walker, be requested to make up the compila- 

 tions of the agricultural transactions of the Commonwealth 

 for the year 1852, together with the Report of this Board, and 

 to perform such other duties as are incumbent on its Secre- 

 tary. 



This report was accepted. 



A committee appointed to nominate members of the Gen- 

 eneral Board of the United States Agricultural Society, re- 

 ported the names of J. W. Proctor, Essex Society, H. W. 

 Cushman, Franklin Society, Simon Brown, Middlesex Society. 



The report was accepted, and the above named gentlemen 

 elected. 



The committee on public lectures reported in favor of calling 

 the attention of the people to the importance of having lectures 

 on agriculture form a part of the course of all lyceums and 

 similar associations in the rural districts of the Common- 

 wealth. 



This report was accepted and referred to a committee, who 

 subsequently issued, through the agricultural papers, a notice 

 calling the attention of the friends of agriculture to the subject. 



The fifth and last meeting of the Board was held on the 

 12th instant. The attendance was large, only two members 

 being absent. 



Reports were received from the several committees appoint- 

 ed to visit the exhibitions of the different societies. 



These reports, or such extracts as may be deemed expedient, 

 will be published in the Transactions of the Agricultural So- 

 cieties now being prepared by the Secretary pro tern. 



Essays were read by several gentlemen to whom subjects 

 were referred at the second meeting of the Board. These, 

 too, (or extracts from them,) will appear in the annual trans- 

 actions. 



The election of a Secretary was again taken up, and on 

 motion, it was voted, " that the appointment of Secretary be 

 postponed until the next meeting of the Board, and that the 

 present Secretary continue to act until a permanent Secretary 

 is chosen, and the further action of this Board." 



