WRIGHT & POTTER PRINTING CO., STATE PRINTERS,

32 DERNE STREET.

1917.

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HARVARD COLLEGE

JAN 1933

LIBRARY

The Commonwealth

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PART II.

Public Winter Meeting of the Board at Springfield,

Lecture: Breeding and Selecting Fowls for Egg Production. By

James E. Rice,

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7

Lecture: The Maintenance of Soil Fertility. By Charles E. Thorne,

Lecture: Advertising Agricultural Products. By Henry K. Hannah,

Lecture: Market Gardening. By R. H. Garrahan,

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97

Lecture: The Improvement of Live Stock. By R. A. Hayne, .

Lecture: The Pasteurization of Market Milk. By O. F. Hunziker, .

Lecture: The Federal Office of Markets and Rural Organization.

By J. C. Gilbert,

Lecture: Functions of a State Department of Markets. By A. E.

Cance,

109

122

Lecture: My Experience as a Distributor of Milk. By E. L.

Bradford,

135

Lecture: Business Organization as related to Agriculture. By Mar-

Lecture: Co-operative Dairying. By E. L. Brigham,

152

Lecture: Marketing Milk and Cream. By E. L. Bradford,

Lecture: The New York Dairymen's League. By R. D. Cooper, .

Lecture: The Oxford Bears Fruit Growers' Association. By E. E.

Conant,

Summer Field Meeting of the Board at Great Barrington,

185

Essay: Food Plants to attract Birds and protect Fruit. By E. H.

Forbush, .

191

Essay: The Natural Enemies of Birds. By E. H. Forbush,

Agricultural Legislation of 1916,

STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, 1917.

Members ex Officio.

HIS EXCELLENCY SAMUEL W. McCALL.

KENYON L. BUTTERFIELD, President Massachusetts Agricultural College.
LESTER H. HOWARD, Commissioner of Animal Industry.

Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden, . CLARENCE E. HODGKINS of Northampton, 1917