52 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



competing region in the United States, Canada and elsewhere. 

 Each year there would be issued a summary of each State's 

 agriculture, by counties, which would be ready for distribution 

 by the close of the year. 



Tuberculosis Commission. 



A bill W'as introduced into the Legislature last year to pro- 

 vide for a co-operative relationship with the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture in the payment of indemnities for ani- 

 mals slaughtered which react to the test for tuberculosis. More 

 than forty States already co-operate in this way. 



The Legislature was not ready to pass upon this legislation 

 at the last session, but provided for a commission of w^hich 

 the Commissioner of Agriculture is chairman, and the Com- 

 missioner of Conservation and the Director of the Division of 

 Animal Industry are the other two members. This commis- 

 sion is instructed to make a careful study of the whole matter 

 and report to the 1921 session of the Legislature. Such a 

 study is now being made and it is hoped that the Legislature 

 will pass a bill at its next session. 



Commission for the Study of Massachusetts Resources. 



During next year a very careful study should be made of 

 the agricultural resources of Massachusetts and the types of 

 farming followed. The increased freight rate and th^e enlarged 

 New England market have brought to ]Massachusetts farmers 

 a new opportunity, and the types of work which they should be 

 induced to follow should be carefully studied and laid out along 

 thoroughly economic lines. It is certain that Massachusetts 

 land can be used much more extensively than at present if the 

 types of farming which are employed here are made to fit the 

 conditions for which our markets, soils and other facilities are 

 particularly adapted. 



The extensive development of the farm bureaus and other 

 agricultural agencies would point toward having an agricul- 

 tural program which follows sound economic lines. I recom- 

 mend that a commission be appointed, consisting not only 

 of representatives of farmers' organizations but of some of 



