TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



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State Board of Agriculture, 1896, v 



Report of the Secretary, vii 



Minutes of Executive Committee Meetings, 3 



Minutes of Special Meeting of the Board, 9 



Public Winter Meeting of the Board at Dal ton, ... 15 



Address of Welcome. By Henry A. Barton, 15 



Lecture: How can Boards of Agriculture helj) the Farmers? By 



N. J. Bachelder, 19 



Lecture: The Milk Supply of Massachusetts Cities. By Geo. M. 



Whitaker, 48 



Lecture : The Necessities and Demands of Modern Dairying. By 



Ex-Gov. W. D. Hoard, . .93 



Lecture : The Ethics of Books. By Mrs. Alonzo Towle, . . 122 

 Lecture : How the Agricultural College and Experiment Station 



benefit the Farmer. By Dr. J. B. Lindsey, 138 



Lecture : Rational Stable Management. By Dr. F. H. Osgood, . 172 



Report on Extermination of the Gypsy Moth, ..... 199 



Fifth Annual Report of the Dairy Bureau, ,, 239 



Returns of the Societies, . . . 263 



Minutes of the Annual Meeting, ....... 297 



Report of the Examining Committee of the Agricultural College, 305 

 Essay: Field Crops. By Prof. Wm. P. Brooks, . . . .315 



Essay : Tuberculin, — what it is ; how it is used; what it does. 



By Prof. Jas. B. Paige, . .311 



Essay : Birds as Protectors of Orchards. By E. II. Forbush, . 347 



Essay : Insecticides. By A. H. Kirkland, ..... 363 



Essay : Hints on Land Drainage. By Wm. Wheeler, . . . 372 



Essay: The San Jose Scale. By Prof. C. II. Fernald, . . . 385 



Agricultural Directory, 397 



Report on National Farmers' Congress at Atlanta, Ga., . . . 413 



Report of Board of Cattle Commissioners, ..... 425 



Index, . 561 



