No. 4.] IIEPORT OF SECRETARY. xxiii 



The personnel of the Bureau has been changed, owing to the 

 decease of the chairman, Mr. D. A. Horton of Northampton. 

 The resulting vacancy was filled by the appointment of Mr. 

 F. W. Sargent of Amesbury. 



Chapter 3G8 of the Acts of 1900 provides that " the State 

 Board of Agriculture shall at its annual meeting elect a gen- 

 eral agent of the Dairy Bureau, to assist the Bureau and to 

 oversee, under its direction, the work prescribed in section 

 11 of chapter 412 of the Acts of 1891." 



This provision of law supersedes the appointment by the 

 Governor of " an assistant to the secretary of the Board 

 of Agriculture, — to assist in the work prescribed in the 

 eleventh section of this act." 



This act was intended to promote more perfect unity in 

 the work of the Dairy Bureau, that it might have an agent 

 who would be virtually appointed by them to do the work 

 as general agent, not independent of the Bureau and the 

 Board by appointment of the Governor. The general agent 

 to " assist the Bureau . . . under its direction " cannot be 

 misconstrued as assistant secretary of the Board of Agri- 

 culture as to duties, and all misconception as to duties or 

 ti.tle in correspondence or press reports is obviated. It 

 establishes the direct control of the Dairy Bureau over its 

 " general agent" and all other agents, and at the same time 

 lessens the responsibility of the secretary, which is wise, 

 because of his many duties. It is believed this act will 

 prove of material value to the work of the Dairy Bureau 

 and the best good of the Board. 



Pan-American Exposition. 

 The Massachusetts Commissioners for the Pan-American 

 Exposition communicated with the secretary of the Board 

 relative to an agricultural exhibit at that exposition. Tlie 

 matter was laid before the executive committee of the Board 

 with the commissioners present, and after discussion the 

 executive committee appointed Pres. H. II. Goodell, Hon. 

 Wm. R. Sessions and tlic secretary of the Board a commit- 

 tee with full power to act. This committee with the com- 

 missioners have been in perfect accord. We have visited 

 the Massachusetts Agricultural College, and the college has 



