Speciat. Meeting 



OF THE 



Board of Agricueture, at Greenfieed. 



Gkeenfield, Mass., Dec. 1, 1896. 



The Board of Agriculture met at the town hall, Green- 

 field, this day, at 9.30 a.m., for business. 



Present: First Vice-Pres. James S. Grinnell, who pre- 

 sided, and Messrs. F. H. Appleton, J. S. Appleton, Jr., 

 Avery, Blair, Bourne, Brewster, Bursley, Clemence, Cruick- 

 shanks, Damon, Ellsworth, Gove, Harwood, Hersey, Horton, 

 Kilbourn, Lyman, Palmer, Pratt, S. M. Raymond, Eeed, 

 Sargent, Sessions, N. "VY. Shaw, Smith, Stetson, Taylor, 

 Welling-ton and Wood. 



The secretary called the attention of the Board to chapter 

 254 of the Acts of 189G, which provides that " the terms of 

 the appointed members of said Board whose terms would 

 expire on the first Wednesday of February in the jeav 

 eighteen hundred and ninet}'-seven shall ex[)ire on the 

 second Wednesday of January in said year." The law not 

 providing when the annual meeting of the Board shall be, 

 the secretary proposed that chapter TV. of the by-laws of 

 the Board, which states when the annual meeting of the 

 Board shall be held, be so amended that the annual meeting 

 of the Board, instead of beginning on the Tuesday pre- 

 ceding the first Wednesday of February, should begin on 

 the Tuesda}' preceding the second Wednesday of January, 

 and thus conform to the time of the expiration of the terms 

 of the members, as designated in the above-mentioned 

 chapter. 



Voted, That chapter TV. of the by-laws be so amended 

 that the annual l)usiness meeting of the Board shall here- 



