316 BOAED OF AGRICULTUEE. 



Mr. Hersey's motion, made the previous day and laid on 

 the table, in relation to the holding of Institutes, was taken 

 up, and after a very animated discussion was amended and 

 adopted as follows : That the rule requiring societies receir- 

 ing the bounty of the State to hold, at least, three Insti- 

 tutes during the year be restated and enforced. 



On motion of Mr. Hersey it was 



Voted, That a committee of three be appointed to con- 

 sider the whole subject of Farmers' Institutes and report to 

 the Board, at the Country Meeting in December, a plan for 

 holding Institutes by the societies receiving the bounty of 

 the State, so as to secure the best results with the least ex- 

 penditure of money to the societies and the members of the 

 State Board : Messrs. Hersey, Hartshorn and Bartholomew. 



Ml'. Grinnell from the Committee then submitted the 

 resolutions of respect to the memory of Marshall P. Wilder. 

 The resolutions were adopted, and ordered to be printed in 

 the Annual Report and a copy to be sent to his family. 



RESOLUTIONS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BOARD OF AGRICULTURE 

 ON THE DEATH OF HON. MARSHALL P. WILDER. 



As on this thirl^'-fourth annual meeting of the Massachusetts 

 State Board of Agriculture, we, its members, miss the noble 

 presence, the benign face, the genial manner and the encouraging 

 words of the Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, the oldest member and 

 almost the founder of this Board ; we of all other associations and 

 individuals most appreciate his loss, and desire to record some ex- 

 pression of our feelings, and therefore resolve, — 



That in the death of Hon. Marshall P. Wilder we have lost a 

 personal friend, the State one of its most distinguished citizens, 

 and the country one of the most universally acknowledged bene- 

 factors of the whole people, in our recorded history. 



That during his long life in and near the metropolis of this 

 Commonwealth, he had in every relation of society endeared him- 

 self to all with whom he came in contact ; and in his daily walk 

 and conversation was an exemplar for the young, and a guide and 

 director for the older. 



His life was beautiful, and on the scene where he had long lived 

 and labored, " of no distemper, of no blast he died ;" but his 



