No. 4.] 



EEPORT OF SECRETARY. 



XV 



Publications. 



The following publications were issued under the super- 

 vision of this office during the calendar year 1893 : — 



* Including Annual Report of Director of State Agricultural Experiment Station, 354 

 pages. 



Legislation. 



The legislation of the year 1893 that had reference to the 

 T5oard of Agriculture or to the agricultural societies was : 

 " An Act to establish the salary of the second clerk of the 

 secretary of the State Board of Agriculture " (Acts of 1893, 

 chapter 130) ; a "Resolve providing for the collection and 

 circulation of information relating to abandoned farms" 

 (Resolves of 1893, chapter 46) ; a "Resolve providing for the 

 printing of the special report of the State Board of Agri- 

 culture on the work of extermination of the Ocneria disjjar 

 or gypsy moth" (Resolves of 1893, chapter 15) ; a " Resolve 

 providing for the printing and distribution of a synoptical 

 and analytical index to the annual volumes of the Agri- 

 culture of Massachusetts" (Resolves of 1893, chapter 25) ; 

 a "Resolve providing against depredations by the insect 

 known as the Ocneria dispar or gypsy moth" (Resolves of 

 1893, chapter 40) ; " Resolutions concerning the extermina- 

 tion of the gypsy moth." 



