INTRODUCTION. 



"Agriculture of Massachusetts," which has heretofore been 

 published in one volume, is this year being offered to the public 

 in two parts, of which this is the second. 



Part I. contains the annual reports of the secretary of the 

 State Board of Agriculture, and of the Nursery Inspector, 

 Apiary Inspector, Dairy Bureau and State Ornithologist, also 

 the financial returns of the agricultural societies and a di- 

 rectory of the agricultural organizations in Massachusetts. 

 Only 1,500 copies of Part I. have been printed, and a very 

 limited supply has been reserved for distribution to the general 

 public. All the above material, however, with the exception 

 of the financial returns of the agricultural societies, may be 

 secured as separates, and those desiring the report of the State 

 Ornithologist, for example, are advised to apply for it as such 

 rather than for the whole of Part I. 



Part II. contains an account of the lectures and discussions 

 of the fifty-third annual Public Winter Meeting of the Board, 

 held at Boston on January 4, 5 and 6, 1916; the most im- 

 portant circulars issued by the Board during 1915; and a 

 compilation of the legislation passed during the year affecting 



agriculture. 



Editor. 



