Report ov the State Board of Agriculture 

 AS to the Feasibility and Probable Cost of 

 PRODuciNU Yacoine Lymph at the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College, for Free Dis- 

 tribution within the Commonwealth.* 



In compliance with the vote of the State Board of Agri- 

 culture at its Jul}' meeting, investigations were undertaken 

 by the committee on Massachusetts Agricultural College of 

 the said Board. 



This matter was referred to the State Board of Agricul- 

 ture for investigation b}' chapter 121 of the Resolves of 1902, 

 which reads : — 



Resolved, That the state board of agriculture is hereby author- 

 ized and directed to investigate as to the feasibihty and probable 

 cost of producing vaccine lymph at the Massachusetts agricul- 

 tural college, for free distribution within the Commonwealth, and 

 to report the result of such investigation, together with such 

 recommendations as the board may consider advisable, to the 

 general court on or before the fifteenth day of January in the year 

 nineteen hundred and three. 



Previous to the introduction of this resolve the matter 

 had been referred to the State Board of Health by chapter 

 107 of the Resolves of 1902. A report of the State Board 

 of Health was submitted to the Legislatiu-e, and printed as 

 House Document, Nc. 1522. 



Reporting for the Board, the secretary said : " We recom- 

 mend that the plan which has been successfully used by us 

 for the production and free distribution of the anti-toxine 

 of diphtheria since 1895 be also employed for the production 



* House Document, No. Ill, 1903. 



