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REPORT OF COMMISSIONER. 



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these notes may be included in the county publications, and 

 thus give a wider circulation to accounts of the work of the 

 Department. 



Meetings of the Department. 



Soon after the reorganized Department began its work a 

 suggestion was made that something should be done to bring 

 the Department into closer touch with the feelings and wishes 

 of practical farmers in all parts of the State. With this object 

 in view the Department decided to hold a series of meetings 

 in all the mainland counties as early in the spring as possible, 

 and all but one of the meetings were accordingly held between 

 March 15 and April 10. Places, dates and estimated attend- 

 ance at these meetings were as follows : — 



Spring Meetings 



In addition to the regular sessions Mr. Forbush, director of 

 the Division of Ornithology, gave special talks to pupils of 

 the high and graded schools in Springfield and to pupils of the 

 graded schools in Northampton. At Springfield he spoke be- 

 fore audiences of at least 2,500 and at Northampton to 300 or 

 more. 



