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IV. The advertising of Massachusetts agriculture to be under the 

 Board of Agriculture. 



V. The question of publications to be subject to agreement. 



VI. The question of the educational administrative work of the Board 

 of Agriculture was left to Secretary Wheeler and President Butterfield for 

 further consideration and report. 



At a recent meeting of the trustees of the college, after the 

 committee of the trustees had reported to that body, the whole 

 matter was referred back to the joint committee, and also a 

 meeting of the trustees and Board was requested to go over 

 this whole matter again. 



The work at the Agricultural College has been along the usual 

 lines, although some new work has been taken up and some 

 additions to the Extension Department have been made. 



The establishment of the market-garden experiment station, 

 authorized by the last Legislature, at North Lexington seems to 

 fill a demand created by the market gardeners for a place where 

 experiments in their line of work could be carried on directly 

 within the area where the greatest amount of work is done. 

 This station is to be under the immediate charge of the Agri- 

 cultural College, with Professor Harold F. Tompson in charge. 



The secretary has enjoyed very cordial relations with the 

 college through many departments, visiting there over a dozen 

 times and addressing some of the meetings during farmers' 

 week. 



The college staff has continued to give us splendid service in 

 the Farmers' Institute work and along other lines. One phase 

 in the relationship of the college and Board should, as soon as 

 possible, be placed on a more definite basis. We refer to college 

 officials acting in the capacity of administrative agents in the 

 control work of the Board. There are two such men now act- 

 ing for us in the nursery and apiary inspection service, respec- 

 tively. For fifteen years we have had the splendid services of 

 Dr. H. T. Fernald in the nursery inspection work. He has 

 given us unstintingly of his best thought and experience, and 

 has placed the nursery inspection work of this State above 

 reproach. Not alone for the actual control of diseases and 

 insects has he worked, but for the general upbuilding of the 

 business. He has represented us many times in Washington, 



