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States; and a trip to Indianapolis to attend the annual meet- 

 ing of the Federated Farm Bureaus. The agricultural work 

 of Massachusetts is naturally closely related to that of other 

 States, and conferences of this sort are invaluable. 



Changes in the Staff. 



Mr. J. Howell Crosby of Arlington, a member of the Ad- 

 visory Board, resigned in July, and Mr. Edwin H. Priest of 

 Littleton was appointed by Governor Coolidge to fill Mr. 

 Crosby's unexpired term. 



On INIarch 15, INIiss Hylda M. Deegan entered the Depart- 

 ment to act in the capacity of confidential secretary to the 

 Commissioner; on April 15, Miss Dorothy Goodwin, formerly 

 statistician with Harris, Forbes & Co., took over the statis- 

 tical work of the Division of Markets; and on April 15, Miss 

 Helen W. Grant, formerly with the United States Food Ad- 

 ministration, and later with the mayor's Employment Bureau 

 for Returned Soldiers and Sailors, assumed the duties con- 

 nected with the Adult Farm Labor Bureau of the Division 

 of Agricultural Information. 



On April 26, INIr. Stephen R. Dow^ was added to the Divi- 

 sion of Information and appointed supervisor of the Boys' 

 Farm Placement Bureau in charge of placing and supervising 

 school boys on farms and in camps. Mr. Dow was director 

 of this work during the war for the Massachusetts Committee 

 on Public Safety and Federal State Director of the United 

 States Boys' Working Reserve. 



The Department suffered a severe loss in the resignation on 

 September .30 of Miss Josephine W. Riley as executive clerk. 

 Miss Riley has served the Department faithfully and well for 

 many years. She became the wife of Mr. R. Harold Allen, 

 director of one of the departmental divisions. Our loss is, 

 therefore, his gain. 



Mr. Leland H. Taylor resigned as assistant Director of the 

 Division of Plant Pest Control on November 30 to continue 

 his graduate studies at Harvard University. Mr. Taylor was 

 an efficient and faithful worker. 



