190 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



The committee on institutes and public meetings reported 

 verbally, the principal item being that the proposed New 

 England conference on rural progress would be held at the 

 office of the secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, 

 Boston, on March 8, and that it would be a delegate confer- 

 ence. The report was accepted. 



Election of officers being in order, the chairman declared 

 His Excellency Curtis Guild, Jr., president of the Board 

 (by a by-law of the Board the Governor is ex officio presi- 

 dent). 



Further elections by ballot resulted as follows : — 



First Vice-President, Hon. William R. Sessions of Spring- 

 field. 



Second Vice-President, Mr. Augustus Pratt of North 

 Middleborough. 



Secretary, Mr. J. Lewis Ellsworth of Worcester. 



General Agent of the Dairy Bureau, Mr. Peter M. Harwood 

 of Barre. 



State Nursery Inspector, Dr. Henry T. Fernald of Am- 

 herst. 



Election of specialists being in order, ballots were taken, 

 and the elections resulted as follows : — 



Chemist, Dr. C. A. Goessmann of Amherst.' 

 Entomologist, Prof. C. H. Fernald of Amherst.' 

 Botanist, Dr. Geo. E. Stone of Amherst.' 

 Pomologist, Prof. F. A. Waugh of Amherst.' 

 Veterinarian, Prof. James B. Paige of Amherst.' 

 Engineer, William Wheeler of Concord. 

 Ornithologist, Edward Howe Forbush of Wareham. 



The secretary appointed his first clerk, Mr. F. H. Fowler, 

 librarian for the ensuing year. 



The Chair announced the standing committees as follows 

 (the secretary is, by rule of the Board, a member ex officio 

 of each of the standing committees) : — 



* Massachusetts Agricultural College. 



