AGRICULTURAL MEETING. 



The Commissioner of Agricultural Survey, having 

 obtained, by a vote of the House, the Representatives' 

 chamber for the purpose, invited a meeting of the 

 members of the Government and others inter- 

 ested in Agriculture to be held on the evening of the 

 13th January, 1840. 



The meeting was very fully attended. The Hon. 

 Leavitt Thaxter, of Edgartown, Dukes Co., member 

 of the Council, was called to the chair. He briefly ex- 

 pressed the pleasure he felt in being present on this oc- 

 casion ; and his respectful acknowledgements of what 

 he deemed a high honor, that of being called to pre- 

 side at a meeting of the farmers of Massachusetts. 



The Commissioner, Mr. Colman, then opened the 

 object of the meeting. 



He stated the great satisfaction, which he felt in 

 meeting again in that place his brother farmers from 

 every part of the state, and so numerous an assem- 

 bly of intelligent and respectable persons, who took 

 an interest in a matter of such paramount impor- 

 tance as the Agriculture of the Commonwealth and 

 the country. The weekly meetings of the last winter, 

 during the session of the Legislature, of the farmers of 

 the Legislature and others, had given much pleasure; 



