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This Department should be prepared to make special exhibits 

 at many large fairs and expositions throughout the country. 

 We have many good products to advertise, and we should 

 seek to place them before the people of other States; not alone 

 to advertise the products themselves, but also to attract settlers 

 to our State. 



Erection of Massachusetts Building on Grounds of 

 Eastern States Agricultural and Industrial Exposi- 

 tion. 



The commission appointed by the Governor in 1917 to erect 

 the State building on the grounds of the Eastern States Agri- 

 cultural and Industrial Exposition has practically completed 

 its work, and with the exception of a few details the building 

 is finished. 



As the grounds of the Eastern States Agricultural and In- 

 dustrial Exposition were taken over by the war department, no 

 exhibition was held this year, but it is hoped that a splendid 

 exposition may be held during the coming year. 



The building is designed on the lines of the old State 

 House, in Boston, and the commission has expended $39,658.83 

 on the building to date. 



Meetings of the Board. 

 The annual meeting of the Board was held at Boston on 

 December 4 and 5, 1917, when routine reports were presented 

 and regular business transacted. The Public Winter Meeting 

 was held at the Hotel Bancroft and Horticultural Hall, Worces- 

 ter, on January 8, 9 and 10, 1918. The Massachusetts Dairy- 

 men's Association, the Massachusetts Milk Inspectors' Associa- 

 tion and the State Beekeepers' Association held their meetings 

 with the Board, and a very good competitive corn show was 

 held in Horticultural Hall. A Massachusetts Vegetable 

 Growers' Association was organized at the time. The following 

 speakers and subjects were presented at the meeting: — 



Howard W. Selby, Springfield, Massachusetts, "The Value of a Market 



News Service to Farmers and Fruit Growers." 

 Leonard G. Robinson, Springfield, Massachusetts, "The Work of the 



Federal Land Bank." 



