No. 4.] REPORT OF SECRETARY. 53 



Federation of Farm Bureaus and County Agents. 



The federation of the various agencies interested in county 

 farm work has raised the question of the recognition of this 

 organization on the Board of Agriculture. 



The county farm bureaus are in touch with the farmers in 

 their localities, and it seems that a representative of this 

 federation on the Board would be of use to both the farm 

 bureaus and the Board. In order to accomplish this purpose, 

 your secretary recommends that the law creating the Board be 

 amended in such a Avay that the Lieutenant-Governor and 

 Secretary of State be dropped and that the name of a repre- 

 sentative from the ^Massachusetts Federation of Farm Bureaus 

 and County Agents be substituted. In this way there is an 

 actual reduction in the membership of the Board, but at the 

 same time an addition of an organization actively interested in 

 agriculture. 



Extracts from the Trespass Laws. 



The demand for the cloth posters bearing extracts from the 

 trespass laws has nearly doubled during the past year, and two 

 lots of 3,000 copies each were printed and entirely used up. 

 The cost of printing was $283.71. Three hundred and seventy- 

 six copies have been sold at 5 cents each, the total receipts 

 being $18.80, which is the same sum as received last year. 

 This amount was credited to the Board's appropriation for 

 incidental and contingent expenses, to which the cost of printing 

 was charged. 



The General Court of 1915 authorized your secretary to 

 print cloth posters containing chapter 594 of the Acts of 

 1914, — An Act relative to the detention of persons for breaking 

 and entering places in which poultry are confined. Five hundred 

 copies of these were printed during the year at a cost of $24.47. 

 This quantity lasted but a short time, and a new supply is now 

 in press. 



Legislation of 1915. 



Out of thirteen recommendations presented to the Legis- 

 lature of 1915, seven were enacted into law. Two of these are 

 most important pieces of legislation, and are calculated to have 

 a widespread and permanent effect upon the agriculture of 



