PUBLIC WINTER MEETING OF THE BOARD, 



AT WORCESTER. 



The annual public winter meeting of the Board for lectures 

 and discussions was held at Horticultural Hall, Worcester, on 

 Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, December 1, 2 and 3, 

 1914. The Worcester County Improvement League, the Massa- 

 chusetts Dairymen's Association, the Alassachusetts Milk In- 

 spectors' Association and the New England Alfalfa Association 

 also held their annual meetings at the same time and place, and 

 the co-operation of these organizations helped the meeting 

 both in attendance and interest. The total attendance at all 

 the sessions was about 1,600. 



The meeting was called to order on the first day at 10 a.m., 

 by J. Lewis Ellsworth, president of the Worcester Chamber of 

 Commerce and ex-secretary of the Board of Agriculture. Mr. 

 Ellsworth introduced Honorable George M. Weight, mayor of 

 Worcester, who delivered the address of welcome. 



ADDRESS OF WELCOME, BY HONORABLE GEORGE 

 M. WRIGHT, MAYOR OF WORCESTER. 



I come here at considerable sacrifice this morning. This is 

 my busy week, as you must all know who read the Worcester 

 papers; we have a campaign here and election next Tuesday, 

 and I am to play a more or less important part in the election. 

 But I am very glad to be here and to meet so many of the 

 men and women gathered here from different parts of the State 

 at this convention. Mr. Ellsworth has referred to the fact 

 that I am a Worcester County farmer. I have, it is true, owned 

 a farm now for about five years, and have been going through 

 the motions of farming and accomplishing some results. I am 

 just completing a new modern barn 150 feet long, built of 

 field stone, and with stone walls 18 inches thick — with the 

 most modern system of ventilation installed, made on plans of 



