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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER 



To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives: — 



In compliance with the provisions of Chapter 128 of the General Laws, 



I am herewith making my annual report for the year ending November 



30, 1928 for the Department of Agriculture. 



The personnel of the Department is as follows : 



ADVISORY BOARD APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL 



JOHN BURSLEY of Barnstable (West), Term expires November 30, 

 1929. 



STUART L. LITTLE of Newbury, Term expires November 30, 1929. 



LESLIE R. SMITH of Hadley, Term expires November 30, 1930. 



GEORGE E. TAYLOR of Shelburne, Term expires November 30, 1930. 



PETER I. ADAMS OF Stockbridge (Housatonic), Term expires Novem- 

 ber 30, 1931. 



HERBERT N. SHEPARD of Warren, Term expires November 30, 1931. 



Organization of the department 

 Commissioner of Agriculture — Dr. Arthur W. Gilbert of Belmont 



Division of Dairying and Animal Husbandry — Joseph C. Cort of 



Reading, Director 



Division of Markets — Laurence A. Bevan of Waltham, Director 



Division of Ornithology — Dr. John B. May of Cohasset, Director 



Division of Plant Pest Control — R. Harold Allen of Taunton, 



Director 



Division of Reclamation, Soil Survey and Fairs — Laurence B. Boston 



OF Hyannis, Director 



Agriculturist — Daniel J. Curran of Marlborough 



Secretary to the Commissioner — Miss Hylda M. Deegan of Boston 



STATE reclamation BOARD 



Gordon Hutchins of Concord, Chairman 

 Gen. Richard K. Hale of Brookline 

 L. B. Boston of Hyannis, Secretary 



Changes in Staff 



Work of the Department has not been interrupted although three new 

 Directors of Divisions have been appointed during the year. Projects 

 under way at the beginning of the year were successfully completed or 

 continued under the direction of able assistants. 



Mr. Edward Howe Forbush, the veteran in point of service in the De- 

 partment resigned as Director of Ornithology in April. Mr. Forbush had 

 served in the Department since 1893. He is widely known through his 

 writings and lectures, and acquired fame as an investigator in economic 

 ornithology. Dr. John B. May of Cohasset was appointed on May 15th to 

 succeed Mr. Forbush. 



Mr. Leslie R. Smith who had served in the Department for ten years, 



