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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Massachusetts Crop Reports. 



The publication of monthly crop reports or bulletins was 

 continued in 1898, and six in all were issued (May-October), 

 aggregating 229 pages of printed matter. Twenty-fiVe hun- 

 dred copies of Nos. 1, 4, 5 and 6, 2,700 copies of No. 3 and 

 2,800 copies of No. 2 were printed and distributed. 



The special subjects treated were : Bulletin No. 1, 

 "Nature's foresters," by E. H. Forbush ; Bulletin No. 2, 

 " The San Jose scale in Massachusetts," by A. H. Kirkland, 

 M.S.; Bulletin No. 3, "Catch-crops," by Prof. Wm. P. 

 Brooks ; Bulletin No. 4, " Tuberculosis and the milk supply," 

 by Geo. M. Whitaker, A.M.; Bulletin No. 5, "Milk and 

 cream," by Dr. J. B. Lindsey ; and Bulletin No. 6, " Stable 

 disinfection," by Prof. Jas. B. Paige. These special articles 

 will be found printed on pages 279-377 of this volume. 



Publications. 



This office issued the following publications during the 

 calendar year 1898 : — 



* Including tenth annual report of the Hatch Experiment Station, 138 pages. 



