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 Summary of State Agricultural Prize Money Payments 



Community Fairs and Exhibitions $ 2,962.85 



Grange Fairs - 809.70* 



Agricultural and Horticultural Societies _ _ 14,723.45 



Poultry and Rabbit Associations 1 ,028.50 



Boys' and Girls' Club Work ....„ „ - „ 1,524.78 



Badges, Medals, Cups, etc 1 .140.68 



Furniture and equipment _ 148.50 



Lantern slides and Photography _ ~ 150.43 



Miscellaneous payments _ _ - 132.00 



Special exhibitions _ _ 6,965.78 



$29,586.67 

 * $15 listed under Grange Fairs which should have been charged to Community Fairs. 



Financial Statement verified. 

 Approved. 



Geo. E. Murphy, Comptroller. 



REPORT OF THE STATE RECLAMATION BOARD 



The State Reclamation Board, which is the successor to the old Drainage Board, 

 was evidently put into the Department of Agriculture because its original purpose was 

 to hear petitions on problems affecting lowlands and to create reclamation or drainage 

 districts where it was found advisable to drain wet lands to make possible their use for 

 agricultural purposes. The Drainage Board, which was created in 1918, was author- 

 ized to perform functions previously exercised by the Superior Court. In 1929 when 

 the demand became general for legislation which would be helpful in carrying on the 

 war against the mosquito the Reclamation Law (Chapter 252 of the General Laws) 

 was amended. This amended act provided that towns and groups of towns could pe- 

 tition the Reclamation Board, requesting a survey of mosquito breeding conditions in 

 their vicinity. It also provided that after such a survey and report, if funds were ap- 

 propriated or contributed to carry out the suggestions of the report, the Reclamation 

 Board should create projects for mosquito control work along somewhat the same 

 lines as they had formerly been created in districts for drainage purposes. 



Since the enactment of this so-called Mosquito Control Act in 1929, the supervising 

 of these mosquito control projects and the making of surveys for municipalities re- 

 questing same has been the principal activity of the State Reclamation Board. In the 

 last nine years there have been expended on mosquito control construction work under 

 the supervision of the Board sums of money amounting to $1,253,496.20. Of this 

 amount the state contributed $600,000 during the years 1931, 1932, and 1933, as a relief 

 measure for unemployment. The balance of the money was from local appropriations 

 and contributions. Every one of these expenditures for payroll and other items was 

 paid out from schedules approved by the Board, and the entire work was supervised by 

 the Board. 



During the year 1938 the Reclamation Board has supervised the usual maintenance 

 work on the mosquito control ditches in the 51 cities and towns in the Commonwealth 

 under the provisions of Section 4, Chapter 112 of the Acts of 1931. Total expendi- 

 ture for maintenance work in these 51 cities and towns was $28,970.62. The above ex- 

 penditures for maintenance were made from money sent in for this purpose by the 

 cities and towns concerned. The cities and towns thus served were the following : 



Acushnet 



Berkley 



Boston 



Chelsea 



Chilmark 



Cohasset 



Danvers 



Dartmouth 



Dighton 



Duxbury 



Edgartown 



Essex 



Everett 



Fairhaven 



Freetown 



Gay Head 



Gloucester 



Hingham 



Hull 



Ipswich 



Kingston 



Lynn 



Maiden 



Marblehead 



Marshfield 



Mattapoisett 



Medford 



l^.Iilton 



Nantucket 



Newbury 



Norwell 



Oak Bluffs 



Peabody 



Plymouth 



0".incy 



Rehoboth 



Revere 



Rockport 



Rowley 



Salem 



Salisbury 



Saugus 



Scituate 



Somerset 



Swansea 



Tisbury 



Wareham 



Wenham 



Westport 



Weymouth 



Winthrop 



