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products from our friends and neighbors in the large industrial centers. It 

 may be necessary in a pennanent adjustment of our industrial problems in 

 Massachusetts to develop a plan that involves a permanent part-time program, 

 combined with part time in the industries. We may in the future find that a 

 permanent plan combining agriculture with some other phase of industrial 

 life may be a partial solution of our economic problems. Those that have en- 

 gaged in agricultural pursuits have first hand knowledge of the meaning of 

 working and toiling. The value of the harvest has always been in direct ratio 

 to the care, time and attention given to the crop, 



A part time program for agriculture and industry that would involve the 

 application of the same kind of loyalty and dependability that has charac- 

 terized our farmers for generations would indeed be a worthwhile achievement. 

 The future may have many new adjustments in store for those of us who are 

 waiting anxiously and patiently, but none will probably have a more funda- 

 mental significance than a closer relationship between agriculture and other 

 branches of our great industrial life. 



Legislation 



We have been interested for a number of years in assisting our fruit grow- 

 ei-s in marketing their apples. Massachusetts produces high quality apples, 

 and the markets for this fruit should be expanded both in this country and 

 abroad. The following legislative resolve was submitted to the General Court 

 in 1936 and was approved May 22, 1936: 



"Resolved, That the department of agriculture is hereby authorized and di- 

 rected to investigate and study the circumstances surrounding the growing and 

 marketing, by farmers and others within the commonwealth, of Massachusetts 

 apples, with a view to increasing their sale and consumption. Said depart- 

 ment shall report to the general court its findings, and its recommendations, if 

 any, together with drafts of legislation necessary to carry said recommenda- 

 tions into effect, by filing the same with the clerk of the senate on or! before 

 the first Wednesday of December in the current year." 



Upon final passage of this legislation it was thought advisable by the de- 

 partment to use the money appropriated in an essay contest with the subject 

 of the essay "Why I Prefer Massachusetts Apples." All residents of Massa- 

 chusetts, except employes of the Department of Agriculture, Massachusetts 

 State College and the County Extension Service and members of their fami- 

 lies, were eligible to enter this contest. Essays were judged solely on the rea- 

 son or reasons entered and a statement indicating where ihe contstants pur- 

 chased apples for home use was submitted to the judges. The judges in this 

 contest were the Commissioner of Agriculture Howard Haines Murphy, Com- 

 missioner of Education James G. Reardon, Senator Charles T. Daly, President 

 of Medford Chamber of Commerce, Joseph P. Sullivan of Ayer, George A. 

 Drew of Westford and E. J. Rowell, Secretary. The essays were submitted to 

 the Department of Agriculture not later than twelve noon on November 9, 

 1936 and were given careful consideration by the judges. As a result of the 

 apple essay contest the following awards were made on November 30: First 

 prize, $200, Mrs. Lillian Evensen of East Templeton; second prize, $100, Mr. 

 Ritchie L. Stevens of Needham Heights; third prize, $50, Mrs. Marion Hart 

 Davis of Springfield. Ten additional prizes of $5 each were won by George 

 Kline, Needham; Paul St. Linger, Beverly; Wm. F. McElroy, Maiden; John E. 

 Thayer, Cambridge; Robert G. Gaco, West Newton; Frank Coss, Framingham; 

 Teddy Nolan, Littleton Common; Christopher H. Evensen, East Templeton; 

 LoTimer H. Brown, Northampton; and George E. GiflFord, Middleton. 



Co-operative Law 



Our cooperative law in Massachusetts, insofar as our agricultural co-opera- 

 tives are concerned, is based upon membership agreements. The members 

 must be farmers who are producing farm products for the use of the co-opera- 

 tive, and when we compare our co-operative law with the laws of other states 



