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Voted, To accept and adopt the report and assign the in- 

 spectors as recommended. 



The committee on Agricultural College and education, by 

 Mr. Cruickshanks, reported recommending that the next 

 public winter meeting be held at Taunton on invitation of 

 the Bristol County Agricultural Society. 



Voted, To accept the report, and that the next public 

 winter meeting be held at Taunton, Dec. 7, 8 and 9, 1897. 



Voted, That the chair appoint a local committee of arrange- 

 ments, to act with the secretary and the committee on Agri- 

 cultural College and education, to consist of five members. 

 The Chair appointed Messrs. N. W. Shaw, S. S. Stetson, 

 Augustus Pratt, Q. L. Reed and O. S. Thayer as the local 

 committee on arrangements. 



Mr. Cruickshanks, for the same committee, reported 

 recommending that Messrs. Sargent and Barton be ap- 

 pointed to present essays at the next annual meeting of the 

 Board. 



Voted, To accept the report, and that Messrs. Sargent and 

 Barton be appointed essayists. The gentlemen announced 

 their subjects as follows: "Farmers' institutes," Mr. F. 

 W. Sargent ; "Opportunities of New England farmers," 

 Mr. W. B. Barton. 



Voted, That the matter of contested election of member 

 of the Board from the Hampden Agricultural Society be 

 referred to the executive committee, with power to act for 

 the Board, when the opinion of the Attorney-General on 

 legality of the election shall be received. 



Voted, That the action of the Board taken at the public 

 winter meeting at Dalton in December, 1895, on the matter 

 of tuberculosis among neat cattle, is in accordance with the 

 present opinion of the Board on that subject. 



Voted, That the two bills presented to the Board for the 

 regulation of the sale of concentrated feed stuffs, which were 

 prepared by Dr. J. B. Lindsey of the Hatch Experiment 



