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Wliereas, It has come to the knowledge of the Massachusetts 

 State Board of Agriculture that the Massachusetts Society for 

 Promoting Agriculture has granted the sum of twenty-five hundred 

 dollars annually for five years to the Arnold Arboretum, to be ex- 

 pended by that institution in paying the expense of an investiga- 

 tion of trees and the best methods of their propagation, and has 

 also granted the sum of one hundred dollars to the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College, to be expended in prizes to the students in 

 the dairy school of that institution in the year 1898, — 



Besolved, That the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture 

 assembled in annual meeting recognizes the generous financial aid 

 granted to agricultural institutions and to plans for agricultural 

 improvement by the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agri- 

 culture from time to time during the past centui-y, and now unani- 

 mously tenders the thanks of the Board to that society for the 

 liberal grants described in the preamble to this resolution. 



Voted, That matters of legislation concerning agricultural 

 interests be referred to the executive committee, with power 

 to appear before the committees themselves, or to appoint 

 certain members of the Board to assist before committees of 

 the Legislature. 



Voted, That the recommendation of the librarian in his 

 report, that a catalogue of the library be prepared, giving 

 titles, authors and customary items, be adopted, and that the 

 catalogue be published in the "Agriculture of Massachu- 

 setts " which is published next after the completion of the 

 catalogue. 



Voted, That the matter of increase of the salaries of the 

 assistants in the office of the secretary be referred to the 

 executive committee, with power to act. 



Voted, That the librarian's report, read and accepted yes- 

 terday, be now adopted. 



The committee on agricultural societies, by Mr. Kilbourn, 

 chairman, reported recommending that the date for the com- 

 mencement of the fair of the Hampshire Agricultural Society 

 be changed to the second Thursday after the first Monday in 

 September, that of the Oxford Agricultural Society to the 



