TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Stale Board of Agriculture, 1902, ..... 



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



Minutes of Meetings of Executive Committee, 



Summer Meeting of the Board at South Swansea, 



Address: The Influence of the Monks in Agriculture. By Dr 



II. II. Goodell, 



Address: The Culture of the Civic Virtues. By Rev. Calvin 



Stebbins, . . . . . • . 

 Public Winter Meeting of the Board at Northampton, . 

 Lecture : Modern Potato Culture. By Dr. Chas. I). Woods, 



The Shade-tree Insect Problem. By A. H. Kirkland 



Lecture 



M.S., 



Lecture 



Lecture 



Dairying in France. By Maj. Henry E. Alvord, . 

 The Latest Results of Experiments in the Culture, Cure 



and Fermentation of Tobacco. By Dr. E. II. Jenkins, 

 Lecture: Dairy Economics. By Ex-Go v. W. D. Hoard, 

 Lecture : Nature Study and the Need of Agriculture in a System 



of Public Education. By C. F. Hodge, Ph. D., 

 Lecture : The Relation of Fruit Culture to the Value of New 



England Farms. By Prof. George T. Powell, 

 Lecture : The Colored Race and its Relation to the Productive 



Industries of this Country. By Dr. Booker T. Washington, 

 Minutes of Annual Meeting of the Board, .... 

 Minutes of Special Meeting of the Board at Boston, 

 Report of Committee on Agricultural Societies, . 

 Report of Committee on Domestic Animals and Sanitation, . 

 Report of Committee on Experiments and Station Work, 

 Report of Committee on Forestry, Roads and Roadside Improve 



ments, .......... 



Report of Committee on Agricultural College and Education, 

 Report of Committee on Institutes and Public Meetings, 

 Report of Committee on Gypsy Moth, Insects and Birds, 

 Report of the Librarian, ..... . . 



Essay: Massachusetts Forestry. By Hon. Win. P. Sessions, 

 ICssay : The Influence of the Board on the Agriculture of the 



State. By John Bursley, ...... 



Report of Delegates to the Farmers 1 National Congress, 



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