TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Part II. 



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Public Winter Meeting of the Board at Springfield, .... 7 

 Lecture: Breeding and Selecting Fowls for Egg Production. By 



James E. Rice, 8 



Lecture: The Maintenance of Soil Fertility, By Charles E. Thorne, 33 



Lecture: Advertising Agricultural Products. By Henry K. Hannah, 49 



Lecture: Market Gardening. By R. H. Gan-ahan, .... 62 



Lecture : The Improvement of Live Stock. By R. A. Hayne, . . 87 



Lecture : The Pasteurization of Market Milk. By 0. F. Hunziker, . 97 

 Lecture: The Federal Office of Markets and Rural Organization. 



By J. C. Gilbert, 109 



Lecture: Functions of a State Department of Markets. By A. E. 



Cance, 122 



Lecture: My Experience as a Distributor of Milk. By E. L. 



Bradford, 135 



Lecture: Business Organization as related to Agriculture. By Mar- 

 cus L. Urann, 141 



Lecture: Co-operative Dairying. By E. L. Brigham, . . . 152 



Lecture: Marketing Milk and Cream. By E. L. Bradford, . . 162 



Lecture: The New York Dairymen's League. By R. D. Cooper, . 168 

 Lecture: The Oxford Bears Fruit Growers' Association. By E. E. 



Conant, 174 



Summer Field Meeting of the Board at Great Barrington, . . 185 

 Essay: Food Plants to attract Birds and protect Fruit. By E. H. 



Forbush, 191 



Essay: The Natural Enemies of Birds. By E. H. Forbush, . . 210 



Agricultural Legislation of 1916, 265 



Index, 281 



