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the better methods of agricultural development, besides 

 interesting a larger number of our citizens to realize the 

 variety of our work and its helpfulness. It is pleasant to 

 know that farmers of leisure, the proprietor of the golf 

 course, the owner of the potato field, the seeker after poultry 

 profits and the enthusiast for roadside improvement and 

 forestry, — all find here a central point for consultation and 

 help ; and not the least pleasant feature of this office, a 

 balm for unjust criticisms, are the expressions of acknowl- 

 edgment for suggestions given or success attained from 

 following the lines suggested. 



Legislation. 

 The legislation of 1902 having reference to the Board 

 of Agriculture or to the agricultural societies was : ' ' An 

 Act making appropriations for sundry agricultural expenses " 

 (Acts of 1902, chapter 103) ; "An Act to abolish the Board 

 of Cattle Commissioners and to create a Cattle Bureau 

 of the State Board of Agriculture" (Acts of 1902, chapter 

 116) ; "An Act to provide for the payment of a certain 

 bounty to the Bristol County Agricultural Society " (Acts 

 of 1902, chapter 202); "An Act to authorize the State 

 Board of Agriculture to appoint a State Nursery Inspector 

 and to provide for the })rotection of trees and shrubs from 

 injurious insects and diseases" (Acts of 1902, chapter 495) ; 

 a ' ' Resolve to provide for preparing and printing an account 

 of the brown-tail moth and of the best methods for destroy- 

 ing the same" (Resolves of 1902, chapter 42) ; a " Resolve 

 to provide for the better protection of butter by the Dairy 

 Bureau of the State Board of Agriculture " (Resolves of 

 1902, chapter 110); and a "Resolve to provide for an 

 investigation and a report by the State Board of Agriculture 

 as to the feasibility and probable cost of producing vaccine 

 lymph at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, for free 

 distribution within the Commonwealth " (Resolves of 1902, 

 chapter 121). 



