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during the montli. The winds were variable, and generally 

 light to moderate in force. The weather of the month, as 

 a whole, was very favorable to the maturing, the harvesting 

 and the housing of crops. Rain is needed and it would be 

 very beneficial to meadows and to fall pasturage. 



Publications of the Month. 

 Pursuant to our intention announced last month, we give 

 below a list of publications issued in September, together 

 with a few omitted in the list of the previous month. The 

 annual report for 1909 will be sent to any one on receipt of 

 either 20 cents in stamps to cover postage, or instructions to 

 ship by express at applicant's expense. " Useful Birds and 

 their Protection " will be forwarded by express, charges 

 collect, on receipt of $1 in cash, money order or check. Post- 

 age is 36 cents, and should be sent with the price of the book 

 when it is desired that the book be shipped by mail. The 

 other publications named will be mailed free of charge. 



Annual Report, 1909. 



Crop Report, Augnist, 1910, containing " Celery Growing, Storing 



and Marketing; " also a list of publications. 

 Reprints from Annual Report, 1909 : second annual rejDort of the 



State Ornithologist; nineteenth annual report of the Dairy 



Bureau of the State Board of Agriculture. 

 Apiary Inspection, Bulletin No. 1 : " Brood Diseases of Bees, their 



Treatment and the Law for their Suppression in Massachusetts." 

 " Useful Birds and their Protection," by Edward Howe Forbush, 



State Ornithologist. Third edition, cloth, 457 printed pages, 57 



plates and 171 other illustrations. Price, $1; jDostage j^repaid, 



$1.36. 



Annual Reports. 

 From our annual reports we have selected a list of lectures 

 and essays on subjects for material on which there is a more 

 or less constant demand. Some of the articles have been 

 published in pamphlet form, but many have either not been 

 so published or are out of print. K^early all the essays and 

 lectures in the reports issued since 1902 are listed, as they 

 are of an extremely practical nature. Of some editions there 

 is a considerable supply on hand, but the increasing demand 



