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State Board of Agriculture, 1899, v 



Report of the Secretary, vii 



Minutes of Executive Committee Meetings, 3 



Minutes of Special Meeting of the Board, 7 



Public Winter Meeting of the Board at Amherst, . . 13 

 Lecture : What the Experiment Stations have learned about Rais- 

 ing and Curing Tobacco. By Dr. E. H. Jenkins, .... 18 

 Lecture : The Mission of the Agricultural Colleges. By Dr. 



W. II. Jordan, 51 



Lecture : The Business Side of Agriculture. By J. H. Hale, . . 84 

 Lecture : The Place that Fruit Growing should hold in New Eng- 

 land Agriculture. By S. D. Willard, 109 



Lecture : The Love and Study of Nature : a Part of Education. By 



Dr. G. Stanley Hall, 134 



Lecture : How can New England compete with the West in Dairy- 

 ing? By Prof. J L. Hills, 156 



Lecture : Grasses and Other Forage Crops. By Prof. C. S. Phelps, 184 

 Description of Exhibit at Winter Meeting of the Board. By Dr. 



J. B. Lindsey, 218 



Minutes of Annual Meeting of the Board, 225 



Report of Examining Committee of the Agricultural College, 237 

 Report of Committee on Agricultural Societies, .... 248 

 Report of Committee on Domestic Animals and Sanitation, . . 250 

 Report of Committee on Experiments and Station Work, . . 251 

 Report of Committee on Forestry, Roads and Roadside Improve- 

 ments, 254 



Report of the Librarian, 257 



Essay : The Massachusetts Agricultural College : its Criticisms, its 



Benefits. By C. K. Brewster, 264 



Essay : Future of Massachusetts Agriculture By N. I. Bow ditch, 274 



Essay : Nature's Foresters. By E. H. Forbush, . . 279 



Essay : The San Jose Scale in Massachusetts. By A. H Kirkland, 295 



