TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Stato Board of Agriculture, I'JOtj, ..... 



Report of tlio Secretary, ....... 



Minutes of tJie Executive Committee of the Board, 



Miniites of Special Business Meetings of the Board, . 



Summer Field Meeting of the Board at Lowell, 



Address : Matters of Importance in Rural Betterment. V>y Hon 



oV. J. Baclielder, ........ 



Public Winter Meeting of the Board at Worcester, 



Addresses of Welcome by Messrs. Walter II. Blodget, (). B 



Iladwen and Biirton W. Potter, ..... 

 Response for the Board by First Vice-President \\'illiam R 



Sessions, ......... 



Lecture : Market Gardening. By Mr. Henry M. Howard, 

 Lecture : The Soil : Importance of its Character for the Culture 



of Fruit. By Mr. (ieorge T. Powell, .... 

 Lecture: Education and Industry-. By Dr. W. E. Stone, . 

 Lecture : Dair^' I'recept and Dairy Practice. By Dr. Joseph I 



Hills, 



Lecture : A Camjjaign for Rui'al Progress. By President Kenyon 



L. Butterlield, ........ 



Remarks at the Evening Session Ijy Messrs. Ledyard Bill, O. B 



Iladwen, Burton AV. Potter, Harry W. Goddard and Kenyon 



L. Buttertield, ........ 



Lecture : Nitrogen in Kelation to Soil Fertility. By Dr. Chas 



D. Woods, 



Proceeduigs of the Annual Meeting of tlie Board, 

 Rejjort of Committee on Agricultural Societies, 

 Report of Committee on Exijeriments and Station Work, . 

 Report of Committee on Listitutes and Public Meetings, 

 Report of Committee on Massachusetts Agricultural College, 

 Report of Committee on Gypsy Moth, Insects and Birds, . 

 Fourth Annual Report of the State Nursery Inspector, 

 Eighth Semiannual Report of the Chief of the Cattle Bureau, 

 Fifteenth Annual Report of the State Dairy Bureau, . 

 Second Annual Report of the State Forester, 

 Essay: Bush-Fruits. By Prof. Fi'ed. S. Card, . 



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