22 VERMONT AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



Report of the Secretary. 



Hon. John G. McCullough, Governor: 



Sir. — I have the honor herewith to submit this, my sixth, annual re- 

 port of the Board of Agriculture, for the year ending June 30th, 1904. 



Meetings were held in the month of August in connection with 

 Pomona Granges. The last week in October several meetings were 

 held, some of them being in connection with a fruit exhibit. The one 

 in the town of Grand Isle was especially a decided success. There 

 were on exhibition very many varieties of apples, pears, plums and 

 other fruits that can be so abundantly produced in Grand Isle county, 

 and which by reason of color, flavor and uniformity in size command the 

 highest price. 



Some meetings were held in December, but owing to the holidays 

 and the annual meetings of several agricultural associations more 

 meetings were held in January and February than earlier. A few meet- 

 ings were also held in March. 



During the year there have been more meetings than ever before dur- 

 ing twelve months. Most of them were one day meetings of three 

 sessions each, several of two sessions, afternoon and evening, and a 

 few were evening lectures. 



The Board was ably assisted in its work by Col. J. H. Brigham, 

 Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. ; Prof. G. M. 

 Gowell, Agricultural College, Orono, Me.; Prof. David M. Kelsey, 

 Horticulturist, Durham, Ct. ; Henry Van Dreser, Cobleskill, N. Y. ; 

 Prof. John Craig, Cornell University, N. Y. ; Prof. W. M. Munson, 

 Orono, Me.; Prof. H. S. Graves, Yale University, Ct.; Dr. J. L. Hills, 

 Director Experiment Station, Burlington; Dana H. Morse, of Ran- 

 dolph, one of Vermont's best grass growers, a picture of whose hay field 

 is the frontispiece in this volume; Hon. T. L. Kinney, South Hero, Hor- 

 ticulturist, who not only grows, but handles fruit successfully for the 

 Vermont grower; John B. Candon, of Pittsford, one of Vermont's pri- 

 vate dairymen; George H. Terrill, of Morrisville, a very successful fruit 

 grower and dairyman, and Amos J. Eaton of Royalton, who has found 

 time in spite of his many cares to study the birds and plants. 



The Board was also aided much it its work by Hon. Mason S. 

 Stone, who for several years was Superintendent of Education in 

 Vermont; Dr. Henry D. Holton, of Brattleboro, the efficient Secretary 

 of the State Board of Health, and Dr. Walter E. Ranger, present Super- 

 intendent of Education. 



Good roads were discussed at some of the meetings by Hon. C. W. 

 Gates of Franklin in a very entertaining and instructive manner. 



