REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE BOARD OF ^^j^^ 



AGRICULTURE. ^g^ 



To C. J. BELL, Governor: — 



Sir: I have the honor herewith to submit this my second 

 annual report of the Board of Agriculture for the year ending 

 June 30, 1906. 



The board held 38 meetings during the winter months, of 

 two and sometimes three sessions, in addition to those places 

 reached by the better farming trains. 



Agriculture in all its branches was discussed at these meet- 

 ings, by experts in their several lines, and it is gratifying to be 

 able to state that the interest in scientific agriculture is rapidly 



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Nowhere was this more noticeable than in the progress 

 through the eastern part of the State of the "Better Farming 

 Train," which in the opinion of the board was a decided success, 

 and it is to be hoped that the good work accomplished in this 

 line will be continued. 



The board was ably assisted by Dr. J. L. Hills, of Vermont 

 Experiment Station, B. Walker McKean, secretary of the State 

 Board of Agriculture of Maine ; Prof. L. R. Jones of Vermont 

 Experiment Station, Prof. Stuart of Vermont Experiment Sta- 

 tion, Hon. C. W. Winslow of Brandon, E. P. Mayo of Water- 

 ville, Me., Prof. F. S. Cooley of the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College, Amherst, Mass., Arthur M. Vaughan and Homer W. 

 Vail of Randolph, Vt., Cassius Peck, superintendent of Experi- 

 ment Farm, Burlington, Vt., Prof. B. E. Fernow, Ithaca, N. Y., 

 Dr. H. D. Holton, secretary State Board of Health, Mason S. 

 Stone, superintendent of education. 



His Excellency, the Governor, attended a good many of 

 these meetings and was enthusiastically received and his remarks 

 fully appreciated. 



This has been a very prosperous year along all lines of 

 agricultural industry and farmers are rapidly coming to realize 

 that with the aid of modern machinery and scientific methods 

 their lines are cast in pleasant places. 



The edition of the illustrated pamphlet "Vermont 1905" has 

 been exhausted and the results from this publication have been 

 so encouraging as to warrant the publication of a better one for 

 1906, which will shortly be issued. 



^ GEORGE AITKEN, Secretary. 



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