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Agricultural exhibits were set up by the Division of Dairying and Animal 

 Husbandry, Markets and the State Reclamation Board. There was also an 

 exhibit by the Department of Conservation, Division of Fisheries and Game 

 and displays of vegetables and cut flowers. 



Special exhibitions were set up by the Department at the following fairs: 

 Marshfield, August 21-26; Topsfield, September 6-10; Great Harrington, 

 October 2-7 and Bristol County at Segreganset, October 4, 5, 6. Mechanical 

 exhibits, farm products and special set-ups were made at Marshfield, Topsfield 

 and Great Barrington and at the Bristol County Fair the World's Poultry 

 Congress exhibit was displayed set up complete as at Cleveland. 



The Department also made an exhibit at the New Lnglana i^'oods Exposi- 

 tion in the Boston Garden, October 14-21, inclusive. Special mention should 

 be made of the Massachusetts State Exhibit at the World's Poultry Congress. 

 This exhibit was made possible through the cooperation of the Massachusetts 

 Development and Industrial Commission. The Commission paid the entire 

 cost of the exhibit, including the expense of transportation and cost of setting 

 up at Cleveland, and the return expense to Massachusetts. The Division of 

 Fairs, however, worked on the proposition from the start and the assistant 

 director acted as chairman of the Massachusetts Exhibit Committee, going 

 to Cleveland with the exhibit and staying throughout the duration of the 

 Congress. 



Requests for departmental exhibits of various kinds are constantly increas- 

 ing which entails additional work and expense as in many cases special 

 material has to be prepared and labor and transportation costs add up very 

 rapidly. Calls for assistance and attendance at meetings are also increasing 

 and result in increasing demands on the division's personnel. 



Summary of Prize Money Allotments and Expenditures 



(15 Agricultural and Horticultural Societies) 



Barnstable County Agricultural Society, $99.50; Barrington Fair Associa- 

 tion, §1020; Bristol County Young Farmers' Show, $340; Eastern States 

 Exposition, $4737.40; Essex County Agricultural Society, $1711.20; Franklin 

 County Agricultural Society, $1700; Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden 

 Agricultural Society, $1709.75; Highland Agricultural Society, $950; Hillside 

 Agricultural Society, $950; Littleville Community Fair Association, $696.95; 

 Marshfield Agricultural and Horticultural Society, $850; Martha's Vineyard 

 Agricultural Society, $450; Middlesex County Fair, $469; Plymouth County 

 Agricultural Society, $600; Union Agricultural and Horticultural Society, 

 $950; total, $17,233.89. 



(30 Community Fairs) 



Agawam Community Fair, $50; Bolton Farmers' Fair, $25; Burlington 

 Fair, $15; Cape Cod Horticultural Society, $224.50; Chicopee Garden Club, 

 $20; Dahlia Society of New England, $50; Dalton Community Fair, $10; East 

 Blackstone Community Fair, $50; East Longmeadow Community Fair, $12; 

 Future Farmers of America, $45; Granville Community Fair, $65; Hampden 

 County Boys' and Girls' Exhibit, $150; Hampden Community Fair, $15; Heath 

 Agricultural Society, $175; Elizabeth Peabody House Science Fair, $75; Mas- 

 sachusetts Horticultural Society, $82.75; Monson Community Fair, $89.85; 

 Montgomery Junior Fair, $12; Natick Fair, $211.25; Norfolk Junior Fair, 

 $45; North Shore Horticultural Society, $85; Orange Boys' and Girls' Club, 

 $65; Rehoboth Community Fair, $125; Spencer Fair, $235.60; Sterling 

 Farmers' Club, $289; Southwick Community Fair, $114.75; Springfield Onion 

 and Potato Show, $219.50; Westfield Young People's Agricultural Fair, $40; 

 West Springfield Junior Fair, $8; Woronoco Harvest Festival, $12; total, 

 $2,616.20. 



(56 Grange Fairs) 



Abington, $8; Acton, $8.50; Acushnet, $12; Assonet, $12; Boylston, $7; 

 Boxboro, $12; Brimfield, $34.90; Cheshire, $13; Cochituate, S8; Dedham, $15; 



