COUNTRY MEETING. 9 



MEETING OF THE BOARD 



AT AMHERST JUNE 20, 1882. 



By order of the Executive Committee, tlie members of the 

 Board met as overseers of the Agricultural College to attend 

 the graduating exercises, also to choose two members of 

 the Board of Control of the Experiment Station, as ordered 

 by the Act, chapter 212, Laws and Resolves. 



There were present Messrs. Buell, Damon, Farnsworth, 

 Grinnell, Gaylord, Goodrich, Hadwen, Haskell, Hersey, 

 Jewett, Lyude, Moore, Noble, Slade, Sessions, Taft, Var- 

 num, Ware, Wheeler. The Board was called to order at 

 the Amherst House by the Secretary, who stated the object 

 of the meeting, and, in the absence of the Governor, re- 

 quested the members to elect a chairman. Hon. J. S. Grin- 

 nell was elected chairman, and the Board proceeded to the 

 election of two members from its own body to serve upon 

 the Board of Control of the Experiment Station. These 

 were separately chosen, and the balloting showed the election 

 of J. R. Nichols of Haverhill, and Edmund Hersey of Hing- 

 ham. The meeting was then dissolved. 



COUNTRY MEETING. 



The country meeting of the Board was held at the Town 

 Hall, in Northampton, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 

 Dec. 5, 6 and 7, 1882. The first session began at two o'clock 

 on Tuesday, Hon. Henky C. Haskell of Northampton calling 

 the meeting to order. He said : — 



Gentlemen of the State Board of Agriculture, and Brother 

 Farmers, — It is with pleasure that we welcome you here in the 

 old Connecticut Valley, the home of this old three-county society, 

 which has within its borders seven younger sister societies. 

 We embrace the three river counties. We have a soil that 

 will produce anything that can be produced in New England. 

 And, gentlemen, we are not only an agricultural region, but 

 we arc a manufacturing region, as we have within our borders 

 some of the largest and best equipped manufactories in the 

 United States. 



