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Same Inducements to Young Men as Other Pursuits?" 

 whose handling of the subject brought out such able dis- 

 cussion that an audience of some three hundred were 

 deeply interested until its close at the dinner hour. In 

 the afternoon, the subject of "The Potato and its Cul- 

 ture," was opened by Edmund Hersey of Hingham, who 

 gave his "lecture on the potato," which was full of inter- 

 esting facts and valuable information based on the results 

 of experiments made by him for a series of years in the 

 growing of this vegetable. In response to questions, Mr. 

 Hersey and Mr. Gregory added to the information on the 

 subject. 



In response to a communication from the Houghton 

 Horticultural Society of Lynn, asking the aid of the Soci- 

 ety in securing the appointment of an Arbor Day, Mr. 

 Gregory offered the following resolution, which was 

 adopted : 



Resolved, That it is the belief of the members of the 

 Essex Agricultural Society that it would be for the inter- 

 est of the State and greatly promote the planting of shade 

 trees along the highways and byways of Massachusetts to 

 have the first of May, or any other better day, appointed 

 by His Excellency Governor Robinson, as Arbor Day. 



The 43d Institute was held March 30th, 1886, at Lyce- 

 um Hall, Salem. The forenoon subject, "The Horse in 

 Agriculture," was opened by Col. John E. Russell, Secre- 

 tary of the State Board of Agriculture, in his usual enthu- 

 siastic and spicy way of taking up a subject in which he is 

 interested, and in replying to the pertinent inquiries which 

 he invokes from his audience. The discussion which fol- 

 lowed showed conclusively that there was a difference of 

 opinion among the speakers in regard to the management, 

 care and feed of horses, some of the methods giving prac- 

 tical and useful information. Mrs. E. V. Gage of Brad- 

 ford was expected in the afternoon, to give her views on 



