TAliLK OF CONTENTS. 



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State Board of Agriculture, 1914, .... 



Report of the Secretary, 



Summary of Crop Conditions, 1913, 

 Public Winter Meeting of the Board at Springfield, 

 Address of Welcome bj' lion. John A. Dennison, . 

 Response for the Board by Abner Towne, 

 Announcement of Dairy Prizes. By P. M. Harwood, 

 Lecture: Poultry Feeds and Methods of Feeding. 



fessor J. C. Graham, 



Lecture: The New Orchard. By Professor F. C. Sears, 

 -Lecture: The Most Important Factors in Successful Farming 



By Professor G. F. Warren, 



^/jN^eport on "Protection from Flies" Contest. By P. M. Har- 

 wood, 



•t|«Lecture: Breeding and Feeding Dairy Cattle. By F. E 



Duffy, '...'. 



Lecture: Rural Credit, Banlving and Agricultural Co-opera' 



tion in Europe. By J. I,ewis Ellsworth, .... 

 Lecture: Alfalfa Growing. By Joseph Wing, 

 Summer Field Meeting of the Board at Barnstable, 

 Essa\^: Peach Growing in Western Massachusetts. By L. W 



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Rice, 

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 Essay 

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Co-operation. By C. R. White, .... 

 Diversified Farm Accounting. By L. A. Sloman, . 

 Farm Ice Houses. By Professor B. S. Pickett, 

 Farm Water Supplies. By S. P. Gates, . 

 Cantaloupe Growing in Massachusetts. By J. ]\I. 



, y Leach, 



't'^ssay: The Culture of the Currant. 



By Professor U. P. Hed 



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rick. 



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saj-: Pruning the Grape. Bj- Professor U. P. Hedrick, 

 Essay: Nut Culture for Mass-aehusetts. By William C. Deming 

 ^Essay: How to buy Fertilizers. By R. E. Annin, Jr., 

 Essay: Honej'bees as Pollinizers. By Mrs. Susan M. Howard 

 Twelfth Annual Report of the State Nursery Inspector, 

 Sixth Annual Rejiort of the State Ornithologist, . 

 Fourth Annual Report of the State Apiary Inspector, 

 Twenty-third Annual Report of the State Dairy Bureau, . 

 Tenth Annual Report of the State Forester, .... 

 Returns of the Incorporated Agricultural Societies, 

 Directory of Agricultural Organizations, .... 

 Index, 



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