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In the other wing of the Building, Savings Bank Life Insurance, the Unemploy- 

 ment Compensation Commission, Massachusetts Development and Industrial Com- 

 mission and the Boston Port Authority each had hooths and shou'ed the activities 

 and scope of these several agencies. Many thousand copies of folders, leaflets, booklets, 

 etc. were given away during the week and valuable contacts were made, innumerable 

 questions answered and information given by those in attendance at the booths. 



The Massachusetts State Building at Brockton had a most unusual series of 

 exhibits, both agricultural and industrial, some of the outstanding being the State 

 Department of Conservation and its very attractive exhibit that caused many favorable 

 comments ; the State Department of Agriculture's poultry and milk exhibit ; the 

 Packard Farm of Brockton's fine vegetable display ; the cranberry growers' showing 

 of a cranberry grading machine and real cranberry bog with pump, etc. ; the United 

 States Department of Agriculture's exhibits of Soil Conservation Work and the 

 school lunch program under the Surplus Marketing Administration. The South- 

 eastern Massachusetts Shoe Manufacturers had an industrial display of all the 

 latest styles in men's footwear. The Brockton Chapter of the American Red Cross 

 had a very fine exhibit. 



Special exhibitions were also set up at the Marshfield, Essex County and Great 

 Barrington fairs. The exhibit at Marshfield featured the Poultry Industry, and the 

 mechanical hen and egg were both used in this exhibit. Pamphlets on "What You 

 Should Know About Eggs" were distributed. The apple storage map with flasher 

 showing location and size of available' storage houses was used, and fruit, pictures 

 and charts giving market information and advertising suggestions made up the balance 

 of the display at Topsfield. The Barrington Fair Exhibit had for a background a 

 canvas showing a cranberry bog, and in front varieties of berries and canned products ; 

 also varieties of apples, special retail containers and a display of apple products in 

 glass. 



At Clark University in Worcester an exhibit was set up in connection with a 

 Conservation Show which the University stages each fall. In addition and in coopera- 

 tion with the Massachusetts Development and Industrial Commission, two very com- 

 prehensive exhibits were arranged ; one at the New England Drug and Health Show 

 held in Mechanics Building, Boston, April 30 to May 4 ; and the other in Atlantic 

 City, New Jersey, October 1 to 4 at the time of and in connection with the North- 

 eastern Poultry Producers Council Fifth Annual Show. The exhibit used at Atlantic 

 City was the reduced, revised and re-conditioned exhibit which was shown at the 

 World's Poultry Congress in Cleveland, Ohio, in August, 1939. The division also 

 assisted in many smaller table and wall displays at meetings, conferences and small 

 shows held in connection with conventions and group gatherings. 



REPORT OF THE STATE RECLAMATION BOARD — 1940 



During the year 1940, mosquito control activities in Massachusetts carried on 

 under the supervision of the State Reclamation Board included : 



1. Supervision of mosquito control projects organized under the "Mosquito Control 

 Act". 



2. Maintenance of mosquito control works, largely in salt marsh areas, constructed 

 with state funds as an unemployment relief measure during the vears 1931, 1932 and 

 1933. 



3. Surveys in cities and towns in response to petitions from municipal admin- 

 istrative officials. 



4. Planning of W. P. A. projects for mosquito control drainage. 



5. Technical assistance to individuals undertaking to control the mosquito nuisance 

 on their own property, and, 



6. Distribution of public information concerning the mosquito problem. 



Under the first heading there are three mosquito control projects, funds for which 

 are provided by municipal appropriations plus limited contributions from interested 

 individuals and organizations. 



The Cape Cod Project, comprising the fifteen towns in Barnstable County, which 

 is the largest single project in the state, carried on its usual construction and main- 



