44 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Your committee therefore recommend that the Board of Agriculture 

 authorize a committee for each county in the State, the members resi- 

 dent in the county, whose duty it shall be to call a meeting of the 

 farmers at such time and place as in their best judgment may be 

 proper, to promote the interests of the farmer by discussions, lectures, 

 essays, or otherwise, and who shall communicate to the Board a full 

 report of their doings. 



Your committee would also recommend that these meetings be 

 commenced as soon as possible. 



E. W. BuLi-. 

 Simon Bkown. 

 JoHK C. Baktlett. 



The above report was unanimously adopted, and the members 

 of the Board in the various sections of the State were consti- 

 tuted committees accordingly. 



Mr. Lewis presented his final report as Treasurer of the State 

 Fair held in Boston, which was accepted, and a committee was 

 appointed, consisting of Messrs. Wilder, Bull, and Sutton, to 

 audit his accounts. 



During the past year the Board has met with a severe loss in 

 the death of the late Hon. Moses Newell, delegate from the 

 Essex society. At the meeting held at Westborough, on the 

 7th of April, the first after this event took place. Colonel Wilder 

 called attention to it in appropriate terms, and offered the 

 following : — 



Resolved^ That we learn with the deepest sorrow, the death 

 of the Hon. Moses Newell, of Essex county, in the full maturity 

 of his powers, and at a time when his services were so highly 

 regarded and so generally recognized. 



Resolved, That we fully appreciate the obligations which rest 

 upon us and iipon the community to cherish his memory for 

 the interest which he always manifested in the cause of agricul- 

 ture in this Commonwealth, and for the uniform kindness, 

 courtesy and benevolence of heart which endeared him to all 

 who knew him. 



Resolved, That we sympathize most deeply with the family 

 and relatives of the deceased in their severe affliction, and that 

 the Secretary be, and he is hereby requested to furnish to them 

 a copy of these resolutions, and to enter them upon the records 

 of the Board. 



