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have contributed to that success by their presence, and by 

 their hospitality to the comfort and convenience of the Board." 



The rcsokition was adopted unanimously. 



Mr. T. P. Root. I desire to say, sir, while it has been 

 the custom, perhaps, to pass this complimentary vote thank- 

 ing the people of the community for their hospitality, and 

 while fourteen years ago it was my privilege to welcome the 

 Board here as its local member, and while we have felt a 

 great desire from that time to this that we should enjoy the 

 same privilege of meeting the Board in its oflScial capacity, 

 until this week we have failed of the realization of our 

 hopes, and I desire, in behalf of the people of Barre and its 

 vicinity, to tender to you our sincere and warmest thanks for 

 your kindly presence, for the able papers which you have pre- 

 sented to us touching the most important features of agricul- 

 ture, starting with the position of Holsteiu cattle in America, 

 and going through the programme, taking up the most im- 

 portant and vital questions which relate to the success of 

 ao;riculture. We want to thank these gentlemen for their 

 painstaking care, for their careful and scientifically pre- 

 pared papers. We have listened attentively to them. We 

 have been charmed with the spirit and style of their pro- 

 ductions, as well as instructed and inspired to new and more 

 vigorous action on our part to rise to a higher standard in 

 our chosen profession. We want to thank you as a Board, 

 collectively, for the investigations which you have made, 

 with unpaid labor, and presented from year to year at 3^our 

 various meetings, for the benefit of Massachusetts farmers 

 and of the world at large. We want to tell you that we 

 have appreciated those labors, that the farmers of Massa- 

 chusetts generally have appreciated those labors, that the 

 country at large has appreciated those hibors, and that now 

 in many a quiet farmer's home the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 Reports are sought for, carefully laid in the library, to be 

 attentively perused in the evening, or whenever leisure shall 

 enable the farmers and their families to do so, and the treas- 

 ures there found carefully stored up for future use. 



I want to thank the public press for disseuiiiiating the 

 proceedings of this Board through the daily papers and the 

 agricultural papers of the State, and thus spreading abroad 



