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REMARKS OF MR. HARRY W. GODDARD. 



Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen : The Board of 

 Trade of the city is composed of farmers, mechanics, mer- 

 chants and manufacturers, and any one else in the city who 

 believes in the upbuilding and the progress of Worcester. 

 We are sometimes asked what good the Board of Trade 

 does, and it is rather a hard question to answer. We have 

 no exhibitions such as President Hadwen described, or such 

 as the Agricultural Society have had, — although some one 

 once said, jokingly, "I think we exhibit ourselves at our 

 banquet." The farmers of the Board of Trade are entitled 

 to just as much consideration at the hands of the Board as 

 any member. In their way they are of just as much im- 

 portance as the merchants or the manufacturers of the city, 

 and if there is anything that the Board of Trade can do at 

 any time to assist them, we want them to feel free to call 

 upon the Board. The rooms are open every working day 

 in the year, with officers in attendance, to render assistance 

 in the matter of information .or help in a business way. 



The Chair. I now have the pleasure of introducing 

 esident Buttertield of the Rl 

 culture and the Mechanic Arts. 



President Buttertield of the Rhode Island College of Agri 



REMARKS OF PRES. KENYON L. BUTTERFIELD. 



Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen : I am very glad to 

 be at this meeting. I was brought up in Michigan, which 

 has been called, as you may know, the western Massachu- 

 setts. I don't know whether you people in Massachusetts 

 are proud of that title for Michigan, or not ; we in Michigan 

 are not ashamed of it for ourselves. I speak of this l>ecause 

 I was brought up to think, from what I had heard my father 

 say and from some early reading that I did on agricultural 

 lines, that Massachusetts in the early days, tlirough its 

 Board of Agriculture and through its Horticultural Society, 

 was not only a pioneer but a leader in developing things 

 agricultural. The records show that away back in the early 

 years of agricultural development Massachusetts men and 



