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that kind of corn, and of course there must be ears on the 

 suckers. I have planted that corn for a numl)er of years, 

 and that is the peculiarity of it. So that the suckers are 

 not always barren. 



Adjourned to Wednesday at 9.30. 



SECOND DAY. 



Wednesday, December 5. 



The Board met at half-past nine o'clock, Hon. J. S. Grin- 

 nell of GreenHeld in tlie chair. 



Mr. Russell, I regret exceedingly to have to take the 

 place of Professor Goessmann this morning, who is detained 

 by a sudden attack of iUness, and to read a paper with which I 

 am entirely unfamiliar, which contains some important tables, 

 which he could make use of as I shall not be able to do. It 

 is also a misfortune to you, inasmuch as I shall be unable to 

 answer those questions which you would have taken so much 

 interest in putting to the accomplished professor. 



Before I begin to read the lecture, I wish to say that I am 

 prepared to give return tickets over the Fitchburg road to 

 anybody who has come over that line. I also desire to say 

 that we are under obliijations to the Connecticut River road 

 for great courtesy in regard to their checks of return. That 

 road has always treated the farmers of this valley with that 

 reciprocal kindness that we have a light to expect from the 

 railroads. The Canal Railroad positively refused to give us 

 any return tickets whatever, or to take any notice of our 

 meeting. 



THE INFLUENCE OF CHEMISTRY ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF 

 A RATIONAL SYSTEM OF STOCK-FEEDING. 



BY PUOF. CIIAULKS A. GDliSSMANX, MASS. AGU. COLI,E(iE. 



The importance of a knowledge of chemistry for a satisfac- 

 tory explanation of various i)hysiol()gical and pathological 

 questions arising in the study of animal life has been for ages 

 recoofnized. 



