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business meeting was held in connection with the public 

 winter meeting at Worcester, December 4-6, accounts of 

 which meetings will be found on pages 11-14 of this volume. 

 The public winter meeting for lectures and discussions 

 was held at Worcester, December 4-6. The lectures and 

 discussions will be found printed on pages 17-204 of this 

 volume. The annual business meetino- was held at the 

 office of the secretary, Jan. 8 and 9, 1901, and the min- 

 utes thereof, etc., will be found printed on pages 207-257 

 of this volume. 



History of the Summer Meeting. 

 To the future historian of the Board the inauguration of 

 the summer meeting may be of interest, and should have 

 place in our records. In the report of the special committee • 

 on farmers' institutes at the last annual meeting the following 

 recommendation is found, viz. ; " And we further recom- 

 mend that the Board inaugurate the system of holding one 

 summer institute meeting each year, at such time and place 

 as shall be decided upon by the Board ; and that the secre- 

 tary shall provide subjects and speakers for the occasion." 

 At the close of the first day's session the Board received an 

 invitation from Walton Hall, Esq., the retiring delegate 

 from the Marshfield Agricultural and Plorticultural Society, 

 to hold a summer meeting at his residence in Marshfield, — • 

 the Daniel Webster farm. The pleasant relations of the 

 Board with Mr. Hall, the very cordial invitation and the 

 historic surroundings of the place induced its immediate 

 acceptance, and the decision of the question of a summer 

 meeting was thus unexpectedly solved before the report of 

 the committee came before the Board for its acceptance. 

 Our host was unremitting in his attentions, the ocean con- 

 tributed its share, and the peach orchard in which we were 

 invited to pluck and eat was a thing of beauty and joy. 

 Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture, had accepted 

 an invitation to be present and address the Board on the 

 work of the United States Department of Agriculture, but 

 failed to appear ; but with such speakers as President 

 Goodell, Hon. Wm. R. Sessions, Mr. Hall, and reminiscent 



