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Summary of State Agriculture Prize Money Payments 



Agricultural and Horticultural Societies $11,521.10 



Community Fairs and Exhibitions 2,525.15 



Grange Fairs 588.60 



Poultry and Rabbit Associations 1,272.50 



Boys' and girls' club work 339.57 



Badges, medals, cups, etc 873.25 



Special agricultural exhibits 7,474.97 



Miscellaneous payments 178.94 



$24,774.08 

 REPORT OF THE STATE RECLAMATION BOARD 



The work of the State Reclamation Board in the way of supervision of mo- 

 squito control ditching and maintenance work of the various mosquito control 

 projects has followed the regular procedure during the fiscal year 1936. In 

 addition to this, the State Reclamation Board has been called upon to assist in 

 laying out various W.P.A. projects in cities and towns of the Commonwealth, 

 as well as endorsing many of these projects. It has also been called upon to 

 check and supervise, insofar as its field force was available, W.P.A. projects 

 of this type in the cities and towns refeiTed to. There were no appropriations 

 on the part of the state for emergency relief work as in 1931, 1932 and 1933, 

 but the projects supported by local funds carried on as follows: 



The Cape Cod Mosquito Control Project, comprising fifteen towns in Barn- 

 stable County, had expenditures for the year of $32,544.94. In this projeost, 

 ditching of previous years, comprising roughly 1135 miles of ditching, has been 

 checked and maintained. This maintenance included the cleaning of over 

 3,000,000 feet of old ditching. In addition, new ditching was constructed in 

 areas where breeding had developed or threatened to develop. This new ditch- 

 ing amounted to over 340,000 feet. 



The Nantucket Mosquito Control Project expended a total of $2,306.15, 

 mostly for maintenance but including some new ditching and filling. 



The Bebnont-Cambridge-Watertown Project had expenditures in the town of 

 Belmont of $551.77, largely for oiling of catch-basins and pools that could not 

 be drained. 



The Natick Mosquito Control Project had an expenditure of $12.00, all for 

 maintenance. 



So far as state projects are concerned, i.e., projects for which funds for 

 ditching were supplied through state appropriations, the usual maintenance 

 work was carried on in the fifty-one towns and cities concerned, total expendi- 

 tures being $29,770.17. This maintenance work covered the cleaning and 

 checking of over 2,000 miles of mosquito control ditching. In the supervision 

 of this mosquito control work and the other activities of the Reclamation 

 Board, the total expenditures were $13,915.01, spent from the usual appropria- 

 tion granted to the board for expenses and services. In response to a request 

 of the W.P.A. authorities, the Reclamation Board examined, checked and en- 

 dorsed forty-four applications from various cities and towns for mosquito 

 drainage projects furnishing 31,155 man-months of work for relief labor, or 

 roughly six months' work for 5,000 men. The field agents and investigators 

 of the board gave periodic supervision to many of these projects, and in many 

 cases actually laid out the work in preparation for the proposals. The board 

 also acted as sponsor for several W.P.A. projects including two in Norfolk 

 County — one for the Fore River basin, and one for the Neponset River basin — 

 also a project covering certain towns in Plymouth County, and another for 

 tows in Bristol County; and in these particular projects, some 300 men were 

 employed. 



The board has also, in response to requests from different communities, made 

 surveys of many areas to determine the best course to pursue in endeavors to 



