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Division of Markets: page 



Wholesale market news 13 



Market news service for housewifes 15 



Apple grading 17 



Onion grading 17 



Tobacco grading 18 



Roadside markets 18 



Information on marketing 18 



Cooperative relations . 19 



Produce market research study 19 



Massachusetts crops 20 



Crop areas, Production and values in 1923 20 



Division of Ornithology: 



PubHcations of the year 21 



Gulls and terns feeding on seventeen-year cicada 21 



The Heath hen 22 



Gulls and terns of Massachusetts 22 



Bird banding . 22 



Division of Reclamation, Soil Survey and Fairs: 



Report State Reclamation Board 22 



Salisbury drainage district 23 



Green Harbor drainage district 23 



Wewantic River drainage district 23 



North Marlboro reclamation project 23 



Assabet River drainage district 24 



Shelburne project 24 



Cherry Rum Brook drainage district 24 



Wessagussett drainage project 24 



Malagasco drainage project . . . 24 



North Scituate reclamation project 24 



Wapping reclamation project 24 



Great pasture reclamation project 25 



Bear meadow reclamation project 25 



Recommendations (Drainage laws) 25 



Soil survey 25 



Fairs and exhibitions 25 



Medals 26 



Camp Gilbert 26 



Expenses special exhibits 26 



Poultry shows 27 



Summary of expenditure 28 



Control work 28 



Division of Plant Pest Control: 



Nursery inspection 29 



European corn borer 30 



White pine blister rust 31 



Apiary inspection 32 



