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Distribution of the Annual Report. 



The liberality of our Legislature provides for the printing 

 of 15,000 copies of the " Agriculture of Massachusetts," and 

 the distribution of them is such that every city and town in 

 the Commonwealth shares in it. The distribution of a little 

 more than half is provided for by law, each member of the 

 Legislature having twenty-five copies, and five hundred 

 copies are bound with the public documents. 



The remainder are distributed through this office to mem- 

 bers of the Board of Agriculture, members of agricultural 

 societies, farmers' clubs and granges and to farmers in towns 

 having no member of the Legislature or of the Board, or no 

 agricultural organization, through our appointed agents, and 

 a few are retained in the office to supply those who are not 

 able to get them from the sources above mentioned. 



Frequent requests come to this office for back volumes of 

 the " Agriculture of Massachusetts." Much difficulty has 

 been experienced in the past in supplying these ; and, in 

 order that we might not be obliged to refuse such requests, 

 the policy. has been adopted of purchasing these volumes 

 from parties having them for sale, whenever it could be done 

 advantageously ; and thus parties desiring these reports have 

 been able to procure them for what the} r cost us. This results 

 in good in two ways. It prevents the books from being 

 destroyed, and also enables parties wishing to do so to com- 

 plete their sets at a comparatively small expense. 



The following is given as an illustration of what has been 

 done in this line the past three years : — 



Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, 20 vols. ; 

 Utah Agricultural Experiment Station, 18 vols. ; Georgia 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, 1(3 vols. ; Rhode Island 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, 26 vols. ; Portuguese gov- 

 ernment, 3(5 vols. ; Utah Agricultural College, 7 vols. ; 

 Chicago Public Library, 13 vols. ; Cornell University, 11 

 vols. ; Wellesley College, 8 vols. ; University of Illinois, 

 17 vols. ; German Consul, Boston, 29 vols. ; University of 

 Minnesota, 30 vols. ; Cleveland, ()., Public Library, 25 

 vols. ; New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station, 28 

 vols. ; Astor Library, New York, 4 vols. ; Harvard Univer- 



