No. 4.] RESPONSE BY JOHN BURSLEY. 35 



we shall all work better and do more for the cause of agri- 

 culture in Massachusetts when we are connected with that 

 order. 



To-day the Board of Agriculture is doing its work ; the 

 college its work ; and the grange, represented by over 13,- 

 000 people in this State and entering probably more than 

 5,000 homes, is })roadening and extending the work and the 

 good feeling among agricultural classes. 



Mr. President and Worthy Master, we thank you, know- 

 ing that this meeting here cannot but be profitable for the 

 Board, for the agriculture of Massachusetts and for the 

 Order of Patrons of Husbandry, second only to the good 

 that will be brought to pass in your gathering here next 

 week. 



The Chairman. This completes the programme for the 

 public meeting this morning. The public meeting is, there- 

 fore, adjourned to 2 p.m. 



Afternoon Session. 



The meeting was called to order by Chairman Sessions, 

 who said : I feel it a pleasure to introduce the speaker of 

 the afternoon. He is a friend of mine. I have been asso- 

 ciated with him for eight or nine years in public work. 

 You know the old adage, " To know a man you must sum- 

 mer and winter him." I have summered and wintered this 

 man for eight or nine years. He is an honorable man, is a 

 man who knows his business, and a man on whose word 

 you can depend. What he tells you about birds in Massa- 

 chusetts 3'ou can depend upon as matters that he has him- 

 self investigated, and knows whereof he speaks. 



The lecturer has requested me to say that the lecture will 

 be given first and the slides later. 



I have the pleasure of introducing Mr. E. H. Forbush, 

 ornithologist to this Board, and a former president of the 

 Worcester Natural History Society. He is well known in 

 Worcester, and will now speak on " Birds useful to agri- 

 culture." 



