MISCELLANEOUS 



Maple Syrup ." 30 



Floriculture 31 



Fertilizer 34 



Number Of Farms 34 



Prices Paid and Received Index Numbers 35 



Farm Production Expenses 36 



Cash Recei pts 37 



Consumption 39 



Population 39 



SECTION II— ANNUAL REPORT. STATE DEPARTMENT OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE 



Board of Food and Agriculture and Staff Members 40 



Agricultural Preservation Restriction Program 42 " 



Division of Agricultural Land Use 44 



Division of Animal Health 45 



Annual Report of the Counsel 48 



Division of Dairying and Animal Husbandry 49 



Division of Fairs, Thoroughbred and Standardbred Horse Programs 50 



Di vi sion of Markets 54 



Milk Control Commission 61 



Pesticide Program 62 



Plant Pest Control Division, Apiary Inspection 64 



State Reclamation Board 67 



Cover: View of the fertile Connecticut River Valley, Sunderland, Massachusetts. Photo courtesy of 

 Pioneer Valley Association. 



Inside Cover Photos : (counterclockwise) 



At Essex Agricultural and Technical Institute in Hathorne, Governor Edward J. King visits with 



students and Director Raymond F. Potter. 



Governor King signs Executive Order to protect state-owned agricultural land; among those attending 



1981 Agriculture Day ceremonies are (1. to r.) State Representative Theodore C. Speliotis of Danvers, 



State Representative F. John Monahan of Beverly, Secretary of Environmental Affairs John A. Bewick 



and Food and Agriculture Coranissioner Frederic Winthrop, Jr. 



Panelists at 1981 Agriculture Day produce and floral wholesaling seminar are (1. to r. ) Telemachus 



Demoulas, President of Demoul as/Market Basket Stores; Angelo Eliopoulos, Demoulas produce buyer; 



James Segal, Purity Supreme; Robert Zoino, Shaws Supermarkets; Raymond Marcoux, Stop & Shop; George 



Semanie, Food Marts; Alan Huberman, M. Huberman & Son, flowers; vegetable growers John Bauer 



of Deerfield, Garabed Dargoonlan of Andover and Angelo Arena of Concord;Clive Olson, Olson's Greenhouses 



Bob Downing of Harmony Farm in North Reading sells at a Boston Farmers Market. 



Rows of tall and sturdy tomato plants are checked by Albert Volante at his Needham farm. 



Cows, cranberries and apples are also growing abundantly in Massachusetts. 



