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Cover Photo — 4 and 5 grade students at the Horace Mann Laboratory School 

 at Salem State College, Salem, Massachusetts, leacn about the commodities 

 produced in the state's different counties during the Massachusetts Agriculture 

 in the Classroom project field testing. 



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Left Column (top to bottom) 



1. Exhibit at celebration of 100th APR farm--the Bolton-Crest Farm in South 

 Deerfleld. May 7, 1984. 



2. Packing zucchini squash at Tom Zigmont's TEE-ZEE Farm in Hatfield during a 

 produce buyers' farm tour. 



3. Craig Richov, Senior Land Use Planner for the Department of Food and 

 Agriculture APR Program at a State House exhibit sponsored by Berkshire 

 County. 



4. Essex County 4-H members shearing sheep at the Topsfield Fair. 

 Right Column (top to bottom) 



1. Commissioner Frederic Winthrop, Jr. and Governor Michael S. Dukakis at the 

 ceremonies commemorating the 100th APR farm, the Bolton-Crest Farm In South 

 Deerfield. 



2. Kurt Wolter harvesting carrots at John Bauer Farm, South Deerfleld. 



3. (left to right) Maureen McCarthy of the Department of Food and Agriculture, 

 Anneli Johnson, Mass. Federation of Farmers' Markets, and Bill Chestna of 

 Three Rivers Farm at the Mission Hill Farmers' Market in Roxbury. 



4. Students at the Horace Mann Laboratory School at Salem State College spinning 

 Massachusetts produced wool, a project during "Massachusetts Agriculture in 

 the Classroom" field testing. 



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Left Column (top to bottom) 



1. Mark Hopf (center) of M&T Farm in Hatfield, with a new variety of trellis 

 tomatoes, the "Jet Star", William Starzec, Assistant Commissioner of 

 Agriculture (right) and William Boyle, farm owner. The M&T Farm was one of 

 several vegetable farms in the western part of the state visited by produce 

 buyers on a tour organized by the Department. 



2. John Bauer of South Deerfield explaining his farm operation during the pro- 

 duce buyers' tour. 



3. (left to right) Cindy Leslczka and Pam Srybny of Wally's Vegetable Farm, 

 Haverhill, at Copley Square Farmers' Market, Boston. 



Right Column (top to bottom) 



1. (left to right) Maple producers Daniel and Jessie Krug of Westhampton and 

 Karin Cook of Worthington at the June Dairy Festival on the Boston Common. 



2. Beekeeper Lynne Lees explaining the honeymaking process to visitors at the 

 June Dairy Festival . 



3. Governor Michael Dukakis proclaiming August "Vegetable Month" in 

 Massachusetts, (left to right) R. Alden Miller, Regional Vegetable 

 Sepciallst from Worcester County Extension Service, Leslie Wilson cf Wilson 

 Farms, Lexington, Guy Paris and Diane Baedeker, Massachusetts Department of 

 Food and Agriculture, and Alan Wilson, also Wilson Farms in Lexington. 



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