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the Board upon requests of Farmers' Clubs and other Societies. 

 This work bids fair to become one of the best features of our 

 activities. 



Publications. 



The principal publications of the year were, Agriculture of 

 Massachusetts for 1910, containing the report of the Secretary of 

 the Board, and statistics relating to Massachusetts Agriculture; 

 a reprint of the Farm Catalogue, of which over five thousand were 

 distributed; numerous pamphlets on subjects relating to farm 

 crops were also issued: Crop reports from May to October con- 

 taining articles as follows: Growing of Cabbage and Cauliflower, 

 Growing of Squash, Melons and Cucumbers, Market Garden Root 

 Crops, Beans, Corn, Tomatoes, Some essentials in Bee Keeping, and 

 Cultivation of Mushrooms. 



These were printed in editions of from 6500 to 7300 practically 

 all of which have been exhausted. Bulletin No. 5 on Vegetable 

 Growing contains articles of special value on all sorts of vegetable 

 crops. Nature leaflets to the number of over 65,000 were reprinted 

 and a large number distributed. Reprints of other reports and 

 bulletins were also made to the number of over 10,000. 



In spite of things left undone that might have been accomplished, 

 the work of the Board for the year has, on the whole, been very 

 satisfactory. An endeavor has been made to place agriculture 

 on a firmer and more profitable basis by bringing before the farmers 

 the latest and most approved methods in general farming, by giving 

 results accomplished by successful men along particular lines, by 

 the encouraging of better market facilities, and by the advertising 

 of products through exhibitions and displays. The Board of 

 Agriculture feels that never were the chances better, nor the results 

 from good agriculture safer, than at the present time in Massachu- 

 setts. 



