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milk she would o-ive. In concluding the sj^eaker urged 

 that a greater variety of coarse fodder be grown on the 

 farm, especially leguminous crops, and those be substituted 

 for the English hay. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



In the afternoon, the subject was, " The State Board of 

 Agriculture : What it has done and its Relation to Agri- 

 cultural Education," by Hon. Benj. P. Ware, of Marble- 

 head. Before introducing the speaker, President Apple- 

 ton made some explanatory remarks somewhat as follows : 



With the State Board of Agriculture, composed of four 

 members, and with the subject of its work for agriculture 

 and education in that line before us this afternoon, you 

 will like to know, first, how that Board is made up. 



Four are members ex-officio : — The Governor, Lieut. 

 <iovernor. Secretary of State and President of the State 

 Agricultural College. Three are appointed by the Gov- 

 ernor for three year terms. Thirty-five are elected by 

 the agricultural societies, which are either incorporated 

 by statute or organized under general laws. It may seem 

 to you a large number to do the executive work that falls 

 to it under the statute, or is given it to do by special acts 

 of legislation. The third class of its members as I have 

 stated them, are chosen by the several societies, as they 

 themselves shall determine. In our society the trustees 

 elect one delegate for three years. You will thus see, 

 remembering that every citizen in the county shall, under 

 the statute, be eligible to membership, that our responsi- 

 bility of the composition of the state board rests with our 

 citizens, who are patriotic enough to pay the paltry sum 

 of three dollars for life membership and to vote once a 

 year for trustee, in their respective cities and towns. The 

 right of societies to membership on the board, also depends 

 upon other requirements which the board is either in- 

 structed by statute to enforce, or is therein authorized to 

 make. 



