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at least 50 will be in operation the coming summer. 



The Committee requests the farmes of every town in 

 the State to get in touch with the otfice at the State House 

 on this question of high school boy labor. Many of the 

 farmers will want one or more boys to live with them on 

 their farms, and these we are prepared to furnish also. 



Of the 1600 boys who did farm work last summer we 

 shall have a greater proportion available for this summer's 

 work and these we shall use as leaders of small groups of 

 inexperienced boys. The four agricultural schools in the 

 State have offered their services for training boys from the 

 neighboring high schools in the rudiments of farming and 

 we hope to have from 700 to 1000 take this course before 

 the first of May. 



The county farm agents through the Commonwealth 

 are co-operating with this committee and will gladly report 

 any calls from the farmers for boy labor. 



The importance of this movement has been felt through- 

 out the length and breadth of the United States and boys 

 are being enrolled by the thousands in every State in the 

 Union. 



The movement is no longer an experiment as its tremen- 

 dous growth demonstrates. 



If Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa, can each use from 75.000 

 to 100,000 high school boys, surely the farmers of Massa- 

 chusetts should not suffer for want of labor while there is a 

 high school boy unemployed in the Commonwealth. (Presi- 

 dent Stone turned the meeting back to President Margeson.) 



PRESIDENT MARGESON: We are certainly very 

 glad to have the Vegetable Growers meet with the Fruit 

 Growers. They have brought to our attention some timely 

 suggestions. 



MR. STEVENS : The Committee on Nominations makes 

 this recommendation: That the last three ex-presidents be 

 added to the list of directors, H. L. Frost, Professor Sears, 

 and I. I. Margeson. I move that the Secretary be instructed 



