No. 4.] RESPONSE BY J. L. ELLSWORTH. 33 



Referring to the Board of Agriculture a moment, you can 

 see by the annual reports that changes are taking place. I 

 took down my large black books and looked over the ad- 

 dresses. Some of the first reports were mostly taken up in 

 discussing the breeds of cattle, — the different breeds for 

 milk, butter and beef, the care, etc., of the same ; the rais- 

 ing of corn, roots, potatoes : subsoil plowing, irrigation. 

 If you take down a volume of our last year's report you 

 will see a great change. la that is the report of the chemist, 

 the entomologist who treats of the insects, such as the gypsy 

 moth and the San Jose scale, and other things we never 

 heard of thirty years ago ; we also find interesting accounts 

 of experiments with special fertilizers. 



I will not take more of your time. There are others to 

 follow me. 



I wish to again thank the president of the Horticultural 

 Society, and through him the society, for the very cordial 

 welcome we have had here to-day. 



The CHAiRiMAN. The next is a welcome from the State 

 Grange. The headquarters of the grange are where the 

 State master resides. The present State master is an 

 honored citizen of Worcester. The Board will be delighted 

 to hear from Mr. W. C. Jewett. 



]\lr. Jewett. As a citizen of Worcester I am glad to 

 welcome you to our city, of which we are so proud, — a city 

 noted for its manufacturing interests. We probably have 

 the largest variety of manufacturing of any city in the 

 United States. A city, as you have heard to-day, noted 

 for its agriculture, for its successful farmers. Every ap- 

 proach is guarded by a successful farmer. It makes the 

 strongest bulwark that could be thrown around any city or 

 nation. I wish to welcome you to this hall. More agri- 

 cultural societies have been formed in it than in any hall 

 in the United States, and its walls echo back the words of 

 many men gone before us who were interested in the same 

 work that we are to-day. I wish to welcome the Board of 

 Agriculture and welcome your work, and I will promise to 

 give any possible assistance to the Board in carrying out its 

 work in increasing the interest in the farms in Massachu- 

 setts and in increasing our production. 



