Board of Agriculture. 



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6. If such delegate be unable to fill the appoint- 

 ment, he may exchange with any other delegate, but in 

 case he cannot make such exchange he shall seasonably 

 notify the secretary, who shall appoint a substitute. 

 If no visiting delegate appears at a fair of a society, it 

 shall be the duty of the member from that society to 

 make a report to the Board. 



7. It shall be the duty of the secretary of this Board 

 to transmit to the secretary of each society the report 

 of the visiting delegate. 



8. The following is established as the standard by 

 which crops shall be estimated by weight by the several 

 societies : Indian corn in the cob as taken from the 

 field shall be rated as 80 pounds to a bushel ; a bushel 

 of Indian corn, shelled or dry, shall be 56 pounds ; a 

 bushel of rye 56 pounds ; a bushel of barley 48 pounds ; 

 a bushel of buckwheat 48 lbs ; a bushel of oats 32 

 pounds ; a bushel of wheat 60 pounds ; a bushel of 

 potatoes 60 pounds ; a bushel of carrots 55 pounds ; a 

 bushel of onions 52 pounds ; a bushel of sugar beets 

 60 pounds ; a bushel of mangel wurzel 60 pounds ; a 

 bushel of ruta baga 60 pounds ; a bushel of parsnips 

 45 pounds ; a bushel of common or English turnips 50 

 pounds ; a bushel of white beans 60 pounds ; a bushel 

 of peas 60 pounds. 



9. The various societies are recommended to con- 

 form to the catalogue of the American Pomological 

 Society in the nomenclature of fruits at their exhibi- 

 tions and in their publications. 



10. The Board recommend that cattle entered for 

 exhibition be kept on the grounds through the entire 

 exhibition, and it is required that in any event they be 

 kept on exhibition until three o'clock in the afternoon 

 of the first day. 



1 1 . No society receiving the bounty of the State shall 

 bestow any premiums or gratuities on grade or native bulls . 



12. Dr. Charles A. Goessmann has been elected the 

 chemist to the State Board of Agriculture, and Dr. 

 Charles H. Fernald as entomologist to the same Board ; 

 and as such they are introduced to the farmers of the 

 Commonwealth. 



In case a 

 delegate can- 

 not attend a 

 fair. 



The secretary 

 to transmit 

 reports of 

 delegates. 



Standard by 

 which crops 

 shall be esti- 

 mated by 

 weight. 



Nomenclature 

 of fruits. 



Cattle to be 

 kept on the 

 grounds. 



Premiums on 

 grade or 

 native bulls. 



Dr. C. A. 



Ooessmann 



and Dr. C. H. 



Fernald, 



chemist and 



entomologist 



respectively. 



