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Also the Legislature of 1898 made the following regular 

 annual appropriations : for maintaining an agricultural ex- 

 periment station at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 

 $10,000 ; for the said college, for free scholarships, $10,000 ; 

 for the said college, for labor fund and extra instruction, 

 $10,000 ; for travelling and other necessary expenses of the 

 trustees of the said college, $800 ; and to defray expenses of 

 collecting and analyzing samples of concentrated commercial 

 feed stuffs, $1,200. The Legislature also appropriated for 

 the said college, for a veterinary laboratory and stable hos- 

 pital in connection therewith, for apparatus and material for 

 the chemical department, and for a building and equipment 

 for the investigation of dairy problems, the sum of $28,000 ; 

 also $200,000 for carrying forward the work of extermina- 

 tion of the gypsy and brown-tail moths. The appropria- 

 tions thus listed amount to the sum of $307,148.69. 



Legislation. 

 The legislation of 1898 ha vino; reference to the Board of 

 Agriculture or to the agricultural societies was "An act 

 making appropriations for sundry agricultural expenses" 

 (Acts of 1898, chapter 22) ; "An act making an appropria- 

 tion for continuing the work of extermination of the gypsy 

 moth" (Acts of 1898, chapters 31 and 290) ; "An act to 

 establish the salary of the first clerk of the secretary of the 

 State Board of Agriculture" (Acts of 1898, chapter 459) ; 

 "An act to require the State Board of Agriculture to take 

 charge of the work of exterminating the brown-tail moth " 

 (Acts of 1898, chapter 544) ; "Resolve to provide for the 

 payment of certain expenses of the annual convention of the 

 Farmers' National Congress, to be held in the year 1899" 

 (Resolves of 1898, chapter 31) ; and a "Memorial relative 

 to the extermination of the gypsy moth." 



Spikes and Washers. 

 The appropriation for the purchase of M spikes and wash- 

 ers was the usual $200 ; but, the supply left over from the 

 previous year being ample, no part of the appropriation was 

 expended. 



