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• The law, and the regulations authorized thereby, will go into 

 effect July 1, 1916. 



The farmland bank and apple-grading bills received united 

 support from organizations and indi\dduals interested, and 

 much credit is due members of legislative committees which 

 had these bills in charge. 



Increased authority was granted the State Nursery Inspector 

 and his deputies to inspect and, if necessary, to destroy, treat 

 or return fruit brought into the State suspected of being 

 infested with injurious insects or plant diseases liable to 

 establish themselves in Massachusetts, but the appropriation to 

 permit the exercise of the authority thus granted was not made. 



A law was passed requiring cities and towns of 10,000 or 

 more inhabitants either to establish a public market or to set 

 aside a street or square for the use of farmers and others. 

 The date of expiration of the terms of Board members was 

 changed from the second Wednesday in January to the first 

 Tuesday in December. A division of the appropriation for 

 lectures before the Board and extra clerical assistance was 

 authorized, so as to permit the payment for lectures at the 

 public winter, summer field and other meetings from the 

 appropriation for disseminating useful information in agri- 

 culture, and so as further to permit the payment of all clerical 

 assistance in the office of the Board, with the exception of the 

 first clerk, from an appropriation of $5,000 for this purpose 

 alone. The Board was authorized to print on cloth and 

 distribute posters bearing the poultry-thieving law passed by 

 the Legislature of 1914. 



The following recommendations did not become law: an act 

 that transportation companies, common carriers and other 

 persons bringing broods of bees into the State be required to 

 notify the State Inspector of Apiaries immediately of such ship- 

 ments, in order that, if deemed necessary, they may be in- 

 spected; further, that the salary of the State Inspector of 

 Apiaries be fixed at $500 per annum instead of S5 per diem, 

 and that an increase from $2,000 to $3,000 be allowed for 

 apiary inspection; an act amending the trespass laws, so as to 

 prohibit the moving, by unauthorized persons, of certain 

 objects resting on the land of another; an act prohibiting the 



