TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



State Board of Agriculture, 190S, 



Report of the Secretary, ....... 



Minutes of the Executive Committee of the Board, 

 Minutes of Special Business Meetings of the Board, 

 Summer Field Meetings of the Board, .... 



Public Winter Meeting of the Board at Boston, . 



Address of Welcome by General Stephen M. Weld, 



Address by His Excellency Curtis Guild, Jr., 



Lecture: Market Gardening. By Prof. H. F. Hall, 



Lecture: Breeding and Raising Garden Seeds. By Mr. William W 



Tracy, .......... 



Lecture: Breeding and Managing Dairy Cattle. By Prof. Thoma 



Shaw, .......... 



Lecture: Market Milk, from Present-day Standpoint. By Mr. t 



B. Lane, ......... 



Lecture: Massachusetts Fruit Trees and their Insect Foes. By l)i 



Henry T. Fernald, ....... 



Lecture: The Farm Help Problem. By Burton W. Potter, Esq., 



Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Board, 



Report of Committee on Agricultural Societies, 



Report of Committee on Experiments and Station Work, 



Report of Committee on Massachusetts Agricultural College, 



Report of Committee on Gypsy Moth, Insects and Birds, 



Sixth Annual Report of the State Nursery Inspector, . 



Twelfth Semiannual Report of the Chief of the Cattle Bureau, 



Seventeenth Annual Report of the State Dairy Bureau, 



Fourth Annual Report of the State Forester, 



Essay: Corn as a Grain Crop in Massachusetts. By Prof. William P 



Brooks, ......... 



Essay: Plum Culture in Massachusetts. By Prof. F. A. Waugh, 

 Essay: Hatching and Rearing Chicks by Natural Methods on the 



Farm. By Mr. John H. Robinson, 302 



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