OF THE

SECRETARY

OF THE

Massachusetts Board of Agriculture:

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:

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

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

Massachusetts

Essez

Middlesex

Chosen by the County Societies.

Term

Expires.

1879

1880

1881