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Massachusetts Dairymen's Association, Massachusetts Federa- 

 tion of County Farm Bureaus and others held their meetings. 

 Much interest was taken in the competitive corn and vegetable 

 shows held in connection with the meeting, and there was a 

 very large attendance at the lectures, a list of which follows : — 



"Fruit Packages," by H. E. Montague, New York City, and J. H. Putnam, 



Greenfield. 

 "Spraying," by Dr. T. J. Headlee, New Jersey Experiment Station. 

 "Winter Injury of Fruit Trees," by U. P. Hedrick, Horticulturist, New 



York State Experiment Station, Geneva. 

 "Fruit Market Possibilities:" (o) Export, by A. W. Otis, Boston; 



(6) New England, by H. W. Selby, Springfield. 

 "Small Fruit Culture," by S. P. Hollister, Connecticut Agricultural 



College, Storrs, Connecticut. 

 "Uses of Fruit," by Miss Elizabeth C. Nickerson, Assistant Emergency 



State Home Demonstration Leader, United States Department of 



Agriculture. 

 "Wintering Bees," by Dr. E. F. Phillips, Bureau of Entomology, United 



States Department of Agriculture, Washington. 

 "Eflficient Management of Labor on the Fruit Farm," by Prof. F. C. 



Sears, Amherst. 

 "Orchard, Berry and Vegetable FertiHzers," by Dr. H. J. Wheeler, 



American Agricultural Chemical Company, Boston. 

 "Why we started a State Association, and what we believe it should do," 



by J. Winthrop Stone, Watertown. 

 "What a Co-operative Farmers' Exchange has done to handle Locally 



Grown Products," by Porter R. Taylor, General Manager, Provi- 

 dence Farmers' Exchange. 

 "Taking the Risks out of Farming," by E. S. Brigham, Commissioner of 



Agriculture, State of Vermont. 

 "A Method of Safeguarding Milk Supplies," by William G. Bissell, Di- 

 rector of Laboratories, Buffalo, New York. 

 Address by Ernest Kelly, in charge Market Milk Investigation, Dairy 



Division, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington. 

 "Women's Work in Agriculture," by Miss Helen Holmes, President, 



Woman's National Farm and Garden Association. 

 "Testimony from Employers," by David A. Ellis, Westwood, and Henry 



S. Upham, Ipswich. 

 "A Forward Look — Agriculture as a Vocation for Women," by Miss 



Margaret Hamlin, Supervisor of Agricultural Courses for Women, 



Massachusetts Agricultural College, Amherst. 

 "Work of the Woman's Land Army of America," by Mrs. William H. 



Hubert, Federal Director Woman's Land Army of America, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 

 Moving Pictures. 



