SUMMER FIELD MEETING. 



The summer field meeting of the Board was held on the 

 C. I. Hood farm, at Lowell, on June 21. The weather was 

 ideal and the total attendance for the day was estimated at 

 about 1,000. The program was an especially good one. It 

 was opened by a demonstration and talk on tools and ma- 

 chines used by the market gardener, by Henry M. Howard. 

 This was followed by a demonstration of a gasoline traction 

 engine and gang plow by a representative of the Interna- 

 tional Harvester Company. Evan F. Richardson then gave 

 an address on harvesting and curing hay, and a demonstration 

 and field trial of haying tools and machinery. In the after- 

 noon Prof. Chas. S. Plumb gave illustrated talks on the 

 points of the dairy cow and the hog, judging animals in each 

 case with the use of the score card. The scene of operations 

 was then shifted to the Geo. W. Trull farm, where an excel- 

 lent demonstration of the use of dynamite in agriculture 

 and its practical application to the various operations of the 

 farm was given. 



