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to the apple industry information concerning some features affecting the 

 consumer demand for their products. 



Cooperation with U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Cooperative relations with 

 the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture makes 

 the Bureau's crop and market reports available for our use. These reports 

 gathered through their extensive machinery of market news service cover 

 shipping points and markets throughout the country. We are thus able to 

 transmit to readers of our market reports prompt and reliable news from 

 production and distribution centers outside the state. 



Close contact with the activities of the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture also 

 enables us to keep in touch with activities for promotion of better marketing 

 methods throughout the country. 



The work of the New England Research Council on Marketing and Food 

 Supply during the past year shows the increasing value of such an agency 

 founded on the recognition of and designed for the promotion of the agri- 

 cultural and economic unity of the New England states. 



The New England Crop Reporting Service whose report appears in another 

 column is another agency made possible by the cooperative efforts of the 

 Department and Bureaus of Agriculture in the New England states and the 

 Federal Department. 



The College and Extension Service. Our cooperation in the activities of 

 the Massachusetts Agricultural College and County Extension Services 

 referred to elsewhere testifies to our cooperative relations with those engaged 

 in agricultural education. 



Assistant of Organizations. Associations of producers and distributors 

 have been of much help in our marketing studies and in many other ways. 

 The value of such associations in presenting the needs of its members cannot 

 be overlooked. 



Newspaper and Radio Service. The value of newspaper and radio services 

 in disseminating market news deserves recognition of the assistance which 

 these agencies have rendered during the past year. The extent to which 

 such services can be obtained depends largely upon the extent to which 

 readers and listeners make known their desires. 



REPORT OF THE DIVISION OF ORNITHOLOGY 



During the year three publications have been issued ; 



1. A revision and reprint of "Out-door Bird Study" 



2. A revision and reprint of "Food, Feeding and Drinking Appliances 

 and Nesting Material To Attract Birds." 



3. The Birds of Massachusetts and Other New England States, Part I, 

 Water Birds, Marsh Birds and Shore Birds, with colored plates by 

 Louis Agassiz Fuertes; the first of three volumes on the birds of 

 Massachusetts and New England, the preparation of which has been 

 authorized by the General Court. 



The Division has cooperated with the New England Federation of Bird 

 Clubs in procuring and setting aside as biz-d refuges four islands as breeding 

 places for sea birds, and two reservations for breeding land birds. Two 

 island reservations have already been presented to the Commonwealth by 

 the Federation, and others will probably follow. 



E. H. FORBUSH, Director. 



REPORT OF THE DIVISION OF PLANT 

 PEST CONTROL 



Nursery Inspection. 



The nurseryman's problem of keeping his nursery comparatively free from 

 injurious insects and plant diseases nowadays, presents on the whole, fewer 

 difficulties than previously. Practically all of the insects and diseases have 



