vi PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION 



form. Special acknowledgment for valuable cooperation is made 

 to the following persons: 



MR. RUFUS W. STIMSON, 



State Supervisor of Vocational Agricultural Education, 

 Massachusetts State Board of Education. 



MR. WlLLARD A. MUNSON, 



Director Division of Markets, 



Department of Agriculture, Massachusetts. 

 MR. H. O. COOK, Chief Forester, 



Department of Conservation, Massachusetts. 

 MR. WILLIAM A. L. BAZELEY, 



State Forester, Massachusetts. 



Professors in the Massachusetts Agricultural College: 



J. A. FOORD, Department of Farm Management. 

 W. P. B. LOCKWOOD, Department of Dairying. 

 S. M. SALISBURY, Department of Animal Husbandry. 

 F. C. SEARS, Department of Pomology. 

 C. L. THAYER, Department of Floriculture. 

 C. H. THOMPSON, Department of Horticulture. 

 F. A. WAUGH, Department of Landscape Gardening. 

 And MR. RALPH J. WATTS, Secretary. 



MR. DWIGHT L. HOOPINGARNER, 



Executive Counsel on Labor Relations, Boston. 

 (Formerly associated with the fishing industry.) 



MR. S. LOTHROP DAVENPORT, 

 Apiarist, North Grafton, Mass. 



MR. A. C. TRUE, Director, United States Department of Agriuclture, 

 States Relations Service, who provided the latest statistical ma- 

 terial upon agriculture, forestry, and animal industry, from the 

 returns of the Fourteenth Census. 



This study is especially designed for use in the junior high and 

 high school and in agricultural schools and classes. The analyses 

 of the vocations are presented under the following nine important 



divisions : 



1. IMPORTANCE. 



2. WORK DONE. 



3. ADVANTAGES. 



4. DISADVANTAGES. 



5. PREPARATION. 



6. OTHER REQUIREMENTS. 



7. INCOME. 



8. EFFECT ON THE WORKER. 



9. REFERENCES. 



