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well have, because the officers who compose any one Board, though having 

 the interest of the State in view, cannot well be collected from all parts of 

 the State, because they cannot well meet without inconvenience. I under- 

 stand that this resolution contemplates that the State Society shall be rep- 

 resented as well as the local Societies in this Board which it is now pro- 

 posed to establish. I have only to say that any measure calculated to bring 

 together the knowledge which exists in the agricultural districts of the 

 Commonwealth in this way, or in any other way, in my opinion ought to 

 meet and would meet the full concurrence of any member of the State 

 Society, or of any other Agricultural Society in the Commonwealth. I 

 am entirely satisfied that we have one object, and I cannot see, for my own 

 part, any thing in this resolution to which th'e Society to which I have the 

 honor to belong would find any cause to object. 



The question was then taken and the resolution adopted. 



Col. PAGE then offered the following resolution, which was adopted. 



Resolved, That the President and Secretaries of this Convention be a Committee 

 with power to take measures for the organization of the Central Board of Agriculture, 

 as recommended by the first resolve, and that such Board be authorized to petition the 

 Legislature for an act of incorporation, if they shall think it expedient. 



The question was taken on the third resolution, and it was adopted. 

 The sixth resolution was taken up, on which Mr. French spoke as 

 follows : 



REMARKS OF THE HON. B. V. FRENCH, OF BRAINTREE. 



MR. PRESIDENT 



This proposition is so expedient, and commends itself to the approbation 

 )f so many, that perhaps it should pass without remark. But I can see 

 much in it to interest every mind. We should have an organization which 

 ;an combine and unite the interests of the several Societies, by means of 

 which communications can be kept up between them. In New York this 

 s left with the Secretary, who corresponds with the other organizations 

 md looks after the interests of the various Societies. A few evenings 

 since, this proposition was suggested to me, and it struck me that we did 

 vant a place which would answer for a kind of head-quarters, where we 

 :ould exhibit agricultural implements, models of every thing that could in- 

 erest the farmer, such as a Committee could approve of, and where a per- 

 lon can go and see the instrument which is most valued by the Committee, 

 think this is a resolve that is calculated to do an immense amount of good 

 o the cause. 



HON. GEORGE DENNY. The resolve was considered a very innocent 

 me, that agriculture was of so much importance that it demanded the 

 iame stand among the people that the other branches of education had. 

 Phe machinery which sometimes should be connected with it was not de- 

 ermined upon, but was left to the future. 

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