PUBLIC WINTER MEETING OF THE BOARD, 



AT SPRINGFIELD. 



The annual public winter meeting of the Board for lec- 

 tures and discussions, was held at the municipal building, 

 Springfield, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 

 2, 3 and 4, 1913. The co-operation of four other agricul- 

 tural organizations, the Hampden County Improvement 

 League, the Massachusetts Dairymen's Association, the Mas- 

 sachusetts Milk Insi^ectors' Association and the NTew Eng- 

 land Alfalfa Growers' Association, helped to make the 

 meeting an unusually successful one, both in point of num- 

 bers and enthusiasm. 



The meeting was called to order at 10.25 a.m. by Wilfrid 

 Wheeler, Esq., secretary of the Board. Secretary Wheeler 

 introduced Hon. John A. Denison, mayor of Springfield, 

 who delivered the address of welcome. 



ADDEESS OF WELCOME, BY HONT. JOHN" A. 

 DEN'ISO^^, MAYOE OF SPRINGFIELD. 



I want you to believe that we are glad to have you here. 

 Springfield feels the compliment of your coming to this city, 

 and Springfield wants to do for you everything that she can 

 to make this meeting an entire success and a very pleasant 

 occasion for all of you. We are glad to have you here for 

 more reasons than one. Springfield had two problems : one 

 of them is transportation and the other one is food. Trans- 

 portation is on the way to a solution, I think; our bridge 

 problem and our railway problem are being solved satis- 

 factorily, but the food problem is a long way from being 

 solved, and its solution means much to the success or the 

 failure of this citv. We are crowing here, 2:entlemen : we 



