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Agricultural Club work, Boys' and Girls', ....... 51 



College, Massachusetts, ....... 229 



trustees, 229 



Development Committee, the Massachusetts, .... 37 



education, commission on investigation of, . . . .37 



exhibitions and contests, ....... 53 



fairs, ........... 48 



organizations, directory of, ...... . 223 



societies, financial returns of, ...... 207 



institutes, attendance, . . . . . .212 



sessions, ....... 212 



officers of 230 



premiums and gratuities, ...... 212 



Agriculture, State Board of, changes in, . . . . . . .56 



exhibition of, at Dairy Show, .... 17 



meetings of, . . . . . . .55 



organization of, ..... . 225 



publications of, in 1916, ..... 59 



recommendations of, . . . . .63 



recommendations of secretary, ... 65 



report of secretary, ..... 7 



Alfalfa, concerning, .......... 29 



exhibit of, by Massachusetts Alfalfa Growers' Association, at Spring- 

 field, 29 



Animals, food, the production of, ........ 27 



Apiaries, brood diseases in, . . . . . . . . . 129 



State Inspector of, seventh annual report of, by B. N. Gates, . 127 



winter loss in, ......... . 144 



Apiary inspection, concerning, ....... 42, 148 



financial statement of, . . . . . . . 150 



suggested lines of work for, ...... 145 



super\ision, .......... 143 



Apple grading, concerning, ......... 45 



Bacteriological laboratory of Dairy Bureau, . . . . . .156 



Bees, brood diseases of, ......... . 129 



EngUsh authority on, C. Hanslope Bocock, ..... 129 



spray poison, effect on, . . . . . . . . . 140 



winter loss of, ......... . 144 



Bird day in the schools, . . . . . . . . . .113 



days and nights in the grange, ........ 107 



study in the schools, . . . . . . . . .111 



talks in the schools, . .• . . . . . . .113 



Birds, effect of Federal migratory law on, ....... 124 



killing of, by spraying, ......... 122 



of Massachusetts, report on, . . . . . . . .114 



