TABLE OF COIS^TE^TS. 



State Board of Agriculture, 1900, y 



Report of the Secretary, vii 



Minutes of Executive Committee Meetings, 3 



Minutes of Special Meetings of the Board, 11 



Public Winter Meeting of the Board at Westfield, . . . .25 

 Lecture : The Gypsy Moth in the Legislature. By Merrick A. 



Morse, 37 



Lecture : Dairying. By Hon. Wm. R. Sessions, .... 45 



Lecture : Holland and its People. By Prof William H. Niles, . 74 



Lecti;re : Market Gardening. By H. R. Kinney, .... 86 

 Lecture : Country Life. By Rev. Dr. Russell H. Conwell, . .114 

 Lecture : The Composition and Economical Use of Commercial 



Fertilizers. By Dr. H. J. Wheeler, 131 



Lecture : Trusts and their Relation to the Farmers. By Prof C. S. 



Walker, . . .* 185 



Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Board, 209 



Report of Committee on Agricultural Societies, . . . .221 

 Report of Committee on Domestic Animals and Sanitation, . . 223 

 Repoi't of Examining Committee of the Agricultural College, . 224 

 Report of Committee on Forestry, Roads and Roadside Improve- 

 ments, 231 



Report of Special Committee on Farmers' Institutes, . . . 234 



RejDort of the Librarian, 236 



Essay : The Evolution of Agriculture. By O. P. Allen, . . .238 



Essay : The Evolution of Farm Machines. By Geo. P. Smith, . 246 



Essay : Spraying of Crops for Profit. By Prof. S. T. Maynard, . 261 



Essay : Practical Hints for the Dairyman. By Prof F. S. Cooley, . 273 



Essay : The Elm-leaf Beetle in Massachusetts. By A. H. Kirkland, 289 

 Essay : Suggestions for the Use of Barn-yard Manure. By Prof 

 Chas. Wellington, ........ 



Essay : Birds as Destroyers of Hairy Caterpillars. By E. H 



bush, 



Report on Extermination of the Gypsy Moth, . 

 Ninth Annual Report of the State Dairy Bureau, 

 Report of Board of Cattle Commissioners, 

 Report on Farmers' National Congress at Boston, Mass., 



Returns of the Societies, 



Agricultural Directory, 



Index, 



For- 



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