Publications. 

 IsTotliing has been issued since the publication of the Crop 

 Report for May, copies of which are still available. It con- 

 tained a special article on " The growing and marketing of 

 squashes, melons and cucumbers." 



Summer Field Meeting of the Boakd of Ageicultuee. 

 The State Board of Agriculture will hold a summer field 

 meeting at Concord, Mass., on July 25, 1911. The hour of 

 the various exercises has not been determined, but a visit 

 will be made to the asparagus experiment plots, conducted 

 under the direction of the Massachusetts Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, where the experiments will be carefully 

 explained by those in charge and the general culture of the 

 crop discussed. Dr. H. J. Wheeler, director of the Ehode 

 Island Agricultural Experiment Station, will deliver a lec- 

 ture on alfalfa growing, based on experiments and investi- 

 gations which he has carried on for a number of years. The 

 public is cordially invited to attend this meeting, and those 

 under whose notice this paragraph falls are requested to 

 speak of it to neighbors and friends. Those desiring more 

 particular information as to hour of exercises, trains, trol- 



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