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Public Winter Meeting. 

 The Public Winter Meeting of the State Board of Agri- 

 culture for lectures and discussions will be held at the Town 

 Hall, Framingham, Mass., December 3, 4 and 5, 1912. Ad- 

 mission to all lectures is free to the public, who are invited 

 to take part in the discussions which will follow the lectures. 

 The lectures delivered at the meeting, together with an ab- 

 stract of the discussions, will be printed in the next Annual 

 Peport of the Board. The following program will be car- 

 ried out : — 



Tuesday, December 3. 

 10 A.M. — Address of welcome by John Bowditeh, Esq., chairman 

 of the selectmen of Framingham and president of 

 the Middlesex South Agricultural Society. 

 Response by John Bursley, Esq., first vice-president 

 of the State Board of Agriculture. 

 10.30 A.M. — Lecture : " Heredity and the Dairy Cow," by Prof. J. 

 M. Trueman, professor of dairy husbandry, Con- 

 necticut Agricultural College, Storrs, Conn. 

 2 P.M. — Lecture : " Production, Distribution and Consumption 

 of Clean Milk," by Ivan C. Weld, dairy investigator, 

 Washington, D. C. 

 8 P.M. — Lecture : " Dairying, an Important Factor in Agricul- 

 ture, as demonstrated in European Countries," by 

 Prof. Oscar Erf, department of dairying, Ohio State 

 University, Columbus, 0. 



Wednesday, December 4. 

 10 A.M. — Lecture : " Storage of Apples," by Prof. F. C. Sears, 

 professor of pomology, Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College, Amherst, Mass. 



2 P.M. — Lecture : " Some Practical Points in the Management 

 of Poultry for Egg Production" (with stereopticon), 

 by Prof. James C. Rice, professor of poultry hus- 

 bandry. New York State College of Agriculture, 

 Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



8 P.M. — Lecture : " Growing Small Fruits and Berries," by Wil- 

 frid Wheeler, Concord, Mass., fruit grower and 

 member of the Board. 



