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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



KEPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN. 



To the President : 



Sir— The following is the report of the library for the year ending 

 June 30th, 1909. Ten hundred six bound volumes have been added to the 

 library during the year, of which four hundred fifteen were purchased, 

 one hundred thirty-eight were gifts, and four hundred fifty-three came bj-^ 

 binding. 



Four hundred twenty-nine pamphlets and unbound volumes have been 

 presented to the library, and acknowledgment made in all cases where the 

 donor was known. We therefore omit to make individual mention at this 

 time. 



For bound volumes we are indebted as follows: 



American Shorthorn Breeders' Ass'n, 7. 

 Bradley's Miscellaneous Writings. 

 Burrows, Hon. J. C, 1. 

 Butterfield, Pres., K. L., 1. 

 Continental Dorset Club, 2. 

 Cambria Steel Co., 1. 

 Canadian reports, 13. 

 Chilean Nitrate Works, 1. 

 Collinge, W. E., 2. 

 Davey, The Tree Doctor. 

 Holstein-Friesian Ass'n, 3. 

 Iowa, State Board of Agriculture, 1. 

 Iowa Academy of Science, 1. 

 Illinois Farmers' Institutes, 1. 

 Kansas Board of Agriculture, 1. 

 Library of Congress, 1. 

 Louisiana Board of Agriculture, 1. 

 Maine Board of Agriculture, 1. 

 Maine State Forest Commissioner, 1. 

 MacDonald, J. R., Geography of New 

 Zealand. 



Manning, W. H. Surveying and Arrang- 

 ing Home Grounds. 

 Mass. Labor Bureau. 1. 

 Mass. Board of Health, 1. 



Michigan reports. 



State Board of Agriculture, 1. 

 State Board of Health, 1. 

 Farmers' Institutes, 1. 

 Supt. of Public Instruction, 1. 

 Senate Journal, 1. 

 House Journal, 1. 

 Vital statistics, 2. 



Michigan Academy of Science, 1. 

 Michigan Pioneer Society, 5. 

 Missouri Botanic Gardens, 1. 

 National Conference of Charities and 



Corrections, 1. 

 New Jersey Board of Agriculture, 1. 

 New Jersey Board of Health, 2. 

 New York State Library, 17. 

 Northwestern Expanded Metal Co., 2. 

 Oklahoma Board of Agriculture, 1. 

 Prang Educational Co., 1. 

 Present to young men, 2 vols. 

 Pettit Prof. R. H., 1. 

 St. Louis Park Commissioners, 3. 

 United States reports, 



Dept. of Agriculture, 8. 



Bureau of Education, 3. 



Bureau of Commerce 

 and Labor, 3. 



Army, 1. 



Census Bureau, 4. 



Interstate Commerce 

 Commission, 10. 



Navy Dept. 2. 



Treasury Dept. 3. 



Ware, L. S. Cattle Feeding with Sugar 



Beets, etc. 

 Wilson, Prof. V. T., 2. 

 Wisconsin Board of Agriculture, 1. 



In the reading room may be found four hundred fifty-seven periodicals, 

 foreign and American, of which three hundred twenty-nine are purchased 

 by the college, and one hundred twenty-eight are received either in ex- 

 change, or as gifts from publishers. Tlie publications thus received are 

 as follows: 



