336 BOAED OF AGRICULTURE. 



1. By recommending farmers and others to grow one or 

 more kinds of seeds of the highest possible excellence. 



2. To study the art of close selection of vegetables, fruits 

 and flowers, from which seeds are desired to be grown. 



3. To pursue the high order of cultivation requisite to 

 develop the strongest and most perfect seeds. 



The essay was discussed and accepted. 



Adjourned for one hour. 



The Board assembled at two o'clock, and heard Mr. Cham- 

 berlain upon "Insect Pests of the Cranberry Crop." 



Voted, That the Secretary should present the matter to 

 the Directors of the Experiment Station, and request them 

 to report at the next annual meeting upon the habits of the 

 insects that prey on the cranberry, and the methods of their 

 destruction. 



Mr. Blackwell had a hearing on cultivation of Sorghum. 

 The subject was indefinitely postponed. 



Mr. Fay's essay was taken from the table and discussed at 

 length, Messrs. Wheeler, Sessions, Taft, Wilder, Moore and 

 Slade taking part in it. The report was adopted and 

 ordered to be printed, with some alterations, to which Mr. 

 Fay agreed. 



Mr. Round read a paper upon "The Army Worm," which 

 was discussed and accepted. 



EEPORT ON THE ARMY WORM. 



BY DANIEL ROUND, OF NANTUCKET. 



Gentlemen of the Board of Agriculture : 



I do not appear before you as a professor of entomology, 

 or even as a very proficient amateur in the science of ento- 

 mology. In the course of my study of agriculture it has 

 been my aim to develop the best means to obtain good and 

 perfect crops ; to search for causes that produced or led to 

 certain effects ; and to find how best to prevent the evil, and 

 to obtain the good. The number of insects known to be in- 

 jurious to our crops is very great, and in the case of some of 



