20 P.D. 123 



$68.50; Athol Egg Show, $9.50; Essex County Poultry Association, $45.50; 

 Essex County Rabbit Breeders' Association, $74; New England Poultry 

 Association, Inc., $250; Athol Poultiy and Pet Stock Association, $170.50; 

 Holyoke Poultry and Rabbit Breeders' Association, $197; Suburban Rabbit 

 Breeders' Association, $50; total $1,030. 



Summary of State Agricultural Prize Money Payments 



Agricultural and Horticultural Societies $14,554.70 



Community Fairs and Exhibitions 3,249.30 



Grange Fairs 806.60 



Poultry and Rabbit Associations 1,030.00 



Boys' and Girls' Club Work 1.905.07 



Badges, medals, cups, etc 1,041.34 



Special exhibitions 6,131.91 



Miscellaneous payments 350.33 



$29,069.25 



Financial Statement Verified. Geo. E. Murphy, Comptroller. 



Approved. 



BEl*ORT OF THE STATE RECLAMATION BOARD 



During the year 1937 the Reclamation Board has supervised the usual 

 maintenance work on the mosquito control ditches in the fifty-one cities and 

 towns of the Commonwealth under the provisions of Section 4, Chapter 112 

 of the Acts of 1931. 



Total number of men employed on maintenance work 197 



Total maintenance expenditures $28,758.38* 



The expenditures on maintenance were spent from appropriations made for 

 this purpose by the cities and towns concerned. 



In addition to the above, work has been supervised on the following mos- 

 quito control projects: Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Belmont. 



Total number of men employed on these projects 44 



Total expenditures $37,639.47* 



(* Verified and approved by George E. Murphy, Comptroller.) 



The Board has also acted as sponsor for the Department of Agriculture for 

 certain WPA projects, i.e.: Bristol County-wide, Plymouth County-wide; two 

 projects for Norfolk County-wide, City of Brockton, Nantucket County, Town 

 of Newbury, and Town of Rowley. 



There have also been approved under the sponsorship of the Board, WPA 

 projects in Pittsfield, Sunderland, Dukes County, Gloucester, Ipswich, and 

 Essex on which operations have not, as yet, started. On the projects which 

 have been in operation there have been upwards of four hundred men em- 

 ployed, all paid from Federal funds. 



Field Agents of the Board, Messrs. Wales, Casey, and Shockley, in addition 

 to checking on the projects listed above, have laid out projects sponsored by 

 various towns and cities. These field agents have not only assisted selectmen 

 and mayors in preparing project proposals, but have also furnished periodic 

 supervision of such projects as have been approved and operated. Towns and 

 cities so assisted were: 



East Longmeadow Mattapoisett Oak Bluffs 



Longmeadow Raynham Braintree 



Sunderland Randolph Weymouth 



West Springfield Pittsfield Boston 



Carver Salisbury Wrentham 



Wareham Edgartown Lexington. 



Dartmouth Tisbury 



