58 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [P. D. 4. 



Extracts from the Trespass Laws. 

 Of the cloth posters containing extracts from the trespass 

 laws, 5,000 copies were printed during the fiscal year 1916 at a 

 cost of $233.41, and this supply just lasted out the year. Five 

 hundred and seventy-three copies have been sold at 5 cents 

 each, the total receipts being $28.65, an increase over the year 

 1915 of $9.85. Money received from the sale of these posters is 

 credited to the Board's appropriation for incidental and contin- 

 gent expenses. (Of the poultry thieving posters, which contain 

 the law relative to the detention of persons entering poultry 

 houses, 1,000 copies were printed at a cost of $43.39.) 



Legislation of 1916. 



Little new agricultural legislation of importance was passed 

 by the General Court of 1916. Of 13 recommendations sub- 

 mitted by the Board, 6 were enacted into law, and all but 1 of 

 these were amendments to existing legislation. The public mar- 

 ket act has been amended, providing that cities and towns may 

 make rules for the government of public markets, subject to the 

 approval of the State Board of Agriculture (chapter 79, General 

 Acts of 1916). Several perfecting amendments to the apple-grad- 

 ing law w^ere passed, the most important of which provided that 

 apples in cold storage shall be subject to inspection. An amend- 

 ment to the law relating to the membership of the Board of Agri- 

 culture was passed whereby the Lieutenant-Governor and Secre- 

 tary of the Commonwealth are dropped from membership and a 

 representative of the Federation of Farm Bureaus and County 

 Leagues is included. The nursery inspection law was amended 

 so that nursery agents are required to secure licenses, and the 

 nursery inspector is given authority to declare certain plants and 

 shrubs a nuisance and to destroy them without the consent of 

 the owner; $10,000 was appropriated for the extermination of 

 the white pine blister rust, and transportation companies are 

 required to notify the State Nursery Inspector of importations 

 of certain fruits. 



The apiary inspection law was amended so that the apiary 

 inspector now receives a fixed salary of $500 per year instead of 

 a per diem rate, as before. 



