212 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Committee on forestry, roads and roadside improvements: 

 Messrs. Francis II. Appleton of Peabody, II. G. Worth of 

 Nantucket, J. J. Mason of Amesbury, Henry S. Pease of Mid- 

 dlefield, W. M. Wellington of Oxford. 



Committee on institutes and j)ublic meetings: Messrs. Ed- 

 mund Hersey of Ilingham, H. S. Perham of Chelmsford, Wm. 

 R. Sessions of Springfield, Wm. A. Bailey of Northampton, 

 Kenyon L. Butterfield of Amherst. 



These appointments were approved by vote of the Board. 



On invitation, Mr. C. F. Pidgin, chief of the Bureau of 

 Statistics of Labor, bricflj^ addressed the Board on matters 

 concerning the agricultural census of the Commonwealth to 

 be taken the present year. 



The ornithologist to the Board, Mr. Forbush, made brief 

 remarks concerning his labors as ornithologist, referring 

 particularly to the special report on birds authorized by the 

 last Legislature, and now in the hands of the printers. 



Voted, That the secretary be authorized to reprint the 

 schedule of duties of inspectors for the use of members of 

 the Board. 



The secretar}^ stated that invitations had been received 

 for the holding of the next public winter meeting of the 

 Board, when it was 



Voted, That a special committee of five be appointed by 

 the Chair to consider these invitations, with power to report 

 a place for holding the next public winter meeting. 



The Chair appointed Messrs. Danforth, Kiibourn, Bailey, 

 Bursley and Secretary Ellsworth as this committee. 



His Excellency Governor Guild, coming in, was presented 

 to the Board and took the chair. 



Mr. A. 11. Kirkland, State Superintendent for suppress- 

 ing Gypsy and Brown-tail Moths, on invitation, addressed 

 the Board on the present condition of the infested territory 

 and of the work against the p(\sts now being carried on. 

 On motion of General Appleton, it was unanimously 



