164 



INDEX. 



Nursery inspection, coDcerning, ..... 

 financial statement of, . 

 inspector's report, seventeenth annual, by R. H. Allen, 

 stock, importations of, .... . 



imported, diseases and insects found on, 



Oleomargarine, violations of law relating to, . 

 Ornithologist, State, education, correspondence of, concerning, 



educational work of, ... 



eleventh annual report of, by E. H. Forbush, 



publications by, .... 



recommendations of, . . . 



work of, ..... 



Plant industry, recommendation for the creation of division of, 



Pest Committee, American, the. 

 Potato, 1918 production, 

 Poultry production, decrease in. 

 Prize money, agricultural, 1918, 

 Producer, the, and consumer, concerning, 

 Public money, use of, for gardens unjust. 



PAGE 



33 

 85 

 75 



77 

 77 



131 



104 



103 



97 



97 



113 



35 



55 

 16 

 10 

 30 

 40 

 21 

 12 



Ribes, compensation for, destroyed through action of State Nursery In 

 spector, ........... 



Ruffed grouse, recommendation for close season on, . 



Salaries, statutory, recommendation for abolishment of, . 



Salary, recommendation for increase in commissioner's. 



Seed situation for 1918, ........ 



Sheep industry, agriculture and related matters, plans for developing, 



recess commission on, 

 Smith, LesUe R., report, first annual, of superintendent of farm machinery 

 by, . . . _ _. . . . . . 



Soldiers' Land Commission, Massachusetts, regarding. 



Soldiers, returned, plan relative to land for, 



Spray poison, damage to bees by, .... 



State farms, possibilities of, . 



Statutory salaries, recommendation for aboHshment of. 



Tractors in Massachusetts agriculture. 



Travel, commissioner's, regarding, .... 



Trespass laws, extracts from, printed on cloth and paper, regarding, 



Uniform apple grading law, recommendation for. 

 United States Department of the Interior, plan of, for placing returned 

 soldiers on the land, ...... 



War gardens and the farmer, ..... 



Wet lands, travel of commissioner, regarding, . 

 Wheat acreage, 1918, ...... 



Wheeler, Wilfrid, first annual report of Commissioner of Department of 

 Agriculture bj% . . . . . . 



White pine blister rust, eradication areas, 



financial statement of, 



work for eradication of, 

 Winter injury of fruit crop, ..... 



81 

 114 



55 

 55 

 14 

 27,28 

 27 



63 

 18 

 18 

 124 

 32 

 55 



16,67 

 23 

 46 



38 

 18 



12 

 23 



10 



7 

 79 

 85 

 78 

 11 



