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Truro Agricultural Society, $15; Upton Farmers' Club, $100; Westboro Woman's 

 Club, $15; Wales Community Fair, $25; Westfield Young People's Agricultural 

 Society, $50; White Oaks Community Fair, $25; Worcester Junior Fair, $131; 

 total, $1,766.25. 



43 Subordinate Granges 

 Acushnet, $15; Bedford, $44.50; Boylston, $15; Brimfield, $20; Cheshire, $14 

 Cochituate, $15; Dedham, $20; Dunstable, $50; Eastham, $15; East Freetown, $15 

 Fairhaven, $15; Granby, $14; Halifax, $15; Hilltop, $25; Holliston, .$20; Hopkinton 

 $15; Leicester, $13; Ludlow, $25; Mansfield, $35; Merrimac, .$29; Natick, $35 

 Needham, $15; New Salem, $15; Norton, $35; North Seekonk, $15; Palmer, $17 

 Plainville, $20; Ponkapoag, $15; Princeton, $14; Randolph, $25; Richmond, $15 

 Rochester, $15; Seekonk, $9; Swansea, $8; South Middleborough, $11.50; Stock- 

 bridge, $39; Thrifty, $29; Upton, $15; Warren, $35; Wendell, $20; Westford, $19; 

 Weymouth, $15; West Stockbridge, $24; total, -1 



11 Poultry and Rabbit Shows 

 Angora Wool Producers' Association, $25; Athol Poultry and Pet Stock Asso- 

 ciation, $181.50; Boston Poultry Show, Inc., $240; Essex County Rabbit Breeders' 

 Association, $50; Fitchburg Poultry Fanciers' Association, $183; Metropolitan 

 Reading Poultry Association, $143.50; New England Rabbit, Cavy and Fur 

 Breeders' Association, $99.70; Norfolk County Poultry Association, $37; New 

 England Poultry Association, Inc., $245.50; Springfield Poultry Club, $175; 

 United Rabbit and Cavy Club, $50; total, $1,430.20. 



Summary of State Prize Money 

 Agricultural and Horticultural Societies 

 Community Fairs and Local Exhibitions 

 Poultry and Rabbit Shows 

 Subordinate Granges 

 Junior Activities .... 

 Badges, medals, cups, ribbons, trophies 

 Special Exhibitions 

 Miscellaneous expenses . 



$16,800.35 

 1,766.25 

 1,430.20 



890.00 

 1,968.04 



862.52 

 6,601.25 

 1,070.73 



$31,389.34 



REPORT OF THE STATE RECLAMATION BOARD 



Mosquito control work continued to be the principal activity of the State Recla- 

 mation Board during the fiscal year 1932, although some work was undertaken on 

 the part of the Belle Isle Reclamation District and efforts were made to smooth out 

 some of the difficulties in the Assabet River and the Green Harbor Reclamation 

 Districts. 



Comments and Status of Mosquito Control Work 



On mosquito control, the appropriation of $100,000 which was granted at the 

 special session of the General Court of November, 1931, was spent largely in the 

 early months of the fiscal year 1932. It was found that on the salt-marsh areas 

 south of Boston, work could be carried on during the open winter of 1931-2; and 

 even in the Saugus-Revere marshes, attempts were made to keep men working, in 

 the endeavor to relieve the distressing situation due to unemployment. In most 

 of the projects, work was continued into February, and in some cases until April, 

 1932, when all construction work on state projects ceased, owing to lack of funds. 



On the private projects. Cape Cod and Nantucket carried on as usual, maintain- 

 ing their ditches and going on with further construction work. In the Belmont- 

 Cambridge-Watertown Project, the town of Belmont appropriated $750 to con- 

 tinue its program of work, while Cambridge did some oiling of catch-basins, using 

 funds contributed locally for the purpose of aiding the unemployed. The town 

 of Watertown did not make any appropriation for 1932. The town of Natick 

 again appropriated $500 for work during 1932. 



Chapter 112 of 1931, which was the original act appropriating state funds for 



