208 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 



[Read and accepted at the Annual Meeting, Jan. 12, 1904.] 



Your committee have to report that they find the societies 

 generally have done good work. With two or three excep- 

 tions they have held successful and well-attended institutes, 

 and have given to them more attention and more eftbrt than 

 in some past years. We do not commend the plan of holding 

 the three institutes in succession at one place, as it seems to 

 us in some cases that this method has been adopted to meet 

 the requirements of the rule that three institutes should be 

 held, rather than fulfilling its purpose of disseminating useful 

 information. AVe commend to those societies where the 

 institutes have been failures a more careful advertising and 

 an earlier arrangement of programme. 



The fairs have been more than usuall}'^ successful, and the 

 societies with favorable weather have more than paid their 

 expenses. They have shown considerable variety in the con- 

 ditions of their exhibitions and entertainment. The reports 

 of the inspectors indicate these differences, but generally 

 commend. The efforts of each society to carry forward the 

 work for which these fairs were instituted and are maintained 

 show that in most cases the societies are in good standing. 



Respectfully submitted, 



WILLIAM A. KILBOURN. 



J. HARDING ALLEN. 



Q. L. REED. 



O. E. BR AD WAY. 



J. F. BURT. 



