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-.md 1890. The two Massachusetts institutions are the 

 -Massachusetts Agricultural College and the Bussey 

 Institution of Harvard University. There has been an 

 .issociation of the officers of the American Agricultural 

 Colleges, which should not fail to be conducive to that 

 unity of action and uniformity of standard which it is 

 the aim of the Department of Agriculture to maintain. 



The State Board of Agriculture consists of forty-five 

 membere, four of whom, the governor, lieutenant-governor, 

 the secretary of the ('ommonwealth and the president of 

 the Agricultural College, are members ex-officio. The 

 working organization of the Board includes also a secre- 

 tary, a chemist and an entomologist. The forty-one 

 regular members are chosen severally by incorporated 

 agricultural societies. Here followed a summary of the 

 various payments from the state treasury for the agricul- 

 tural department for the year 1891. Following was a 

 showing of the returns in the secretary's annual report 

 of the various agricultural societies, in which our society 

 was far in the lead for number of Farmer's Institutes. The 

 ■gypsy moth extermination cost $69,247.55 for 1891 and 

 175,000 for 1892. In conclusion, he said he had 

 been more and more impressed with the little that was 

 known about this subject, and he strongly advised his 

 hearers to go to Amherst and see the working of the 

 •experiment station and thereby get a deal of information. 



The 90th Institute was held at the Town Hall, Brad- 

 ford, Friday, Feb. 10. President Appleton called the 

 meeting to order at 9.30 o'clock, and after a few intro- 

 iloctory remarks introduced the speaker, Mr. Lysander S. 

 Richards of Marsh field, whose subject was " How to 

 inoake small farms pay." 



In his preface he said the weather was very unfavorable 

 ■for the meeting, but he would try and make his subject 

 plain. He had no patent on his topic, and had nothing 



