OF THE

SECRETARY

OF THE

Massachusetts Hoard of Agricalture

WITH AN APPENDIX

CONTAINING

REPORTS OF DELEGATES APPOINTED TO VISIT THE
COUNTY EXHIBITIONS,

WITH

RETURNS OF THE FINANCES OF THE AGRICULTURAL

SOCIETIES,

FOR

1877.

BOSTON:

Band, Avery, & Co., Printers to the Commonwealth,

117 FRANKLIN STREET.

STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, 1878.

Members Ex-Officiis.

HIS EXCELLENCY ALEXANDER H. RICE.
HIS HONOR HORATIO G. KNIGHT.

HON. HENRY B. PEIRCE, Secretary of the Commonwealth.
WILLIAM S. CLARK, President Mass. Agricultural College.
CHARLES A. GOESSMANN, State Agricultural Chemist.

Appointed by the Governor and Council.

PAUL A. CHADBOURNE of Williamstown.
MARSHALL P. WILDER of Boston

JAMES S. GRINNELL of Greenfield

Term

Expires.

1879

1880

1881

CHARLES S. SARGENT of Brookline
BENJAMIN P. WARE of Marblehead

1880

1881

JOHN B. MOORE of Concord

1879

JOHN A. GOODWIN of Lowell

1880

THOMAS J. DAMON of Wayland

1881

O. B. HADWEN of Worcester

1881

WILLIAM A. WARNER of Hardwick
JOHN F. BROWN of Lunenburg
ENOCH T. LEWIS of Athol
NATHANIEL UPHAM of Sturbridge
WILLIAM KNOWLTON of Upton
MILO J. SMITH of Smith's Ferry
HENRY C. COMINS of North Hadley
ABIEL K. ABBOTT of Chester
J. N. BAGG of West Springfield
HORACE P. WAKEFIELD of Palmer
FRANKLIN C. KNOX of Blandford.
ARTHUR A. SMITH of Coleraine

1881

1881

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1879

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1880

1880