PUBLIC WINTER MEETING OF THE BOAED, AT BOSTON, 

 JANUARY 4, 5 AND 6, 1916. 



The Board convened for its fifty-third annual Public Winter 

 Meeting at Horticultural Hall, Boston, on January 4, 5 and 6, 

 as the guests of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 

 The weather was good during all three days, and a total of 

 over 3,000 people listened to the lectures and inspected the 

 exhibits. The Massachusetts Dairymen's Association, the 

 Massachusetts Milk Inspectors' Association and the New 

 England Alfalfa Growers' Association held their annual meet- 

 ings in connection with the Board, and the presence and 

 enthusiasm of the members of these associations greatly helped 

 the success of the convention. An apple show, a corn show, a 

 milk, cream and butter show, an exhibit of boys' and girls' 

 agricultural club work, and an exhibit of the prize-winning 

 cottons in the clean milk contest conducted by the Dairy 

 Bureau, together with a large manufacturers' exhibit, filled 

 the main exhibition hall; while the Boston board of health 

 and the Milk and Baby Hygiene Association made interesting 

 exhibits of their work in one of the smaller exhibition halls. 



An interesting group of agricultural moving pictures had 

 been assembled for the occasion by the Community Motion 

 Picture Bureau. The films were used to illustrate the lectures, 

 and were much appreciated by the audience. 



On Tuesday, January 4, the opening session was called to 

 order at 10.45 a.m. by First Vice-President John Bursley, who 

 introduced Mr. John H. Dillon, chairman of the Boston park 

 commission, to give the address of welcome for the cit}' of 

 Boston. 



