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contained, should be revised and brought up-to-date, in order 

 that the bulletin may continue to be as interesting and valuable 

 as possible. The demand for this bulletin has far exceeded 

 that for any other publication of this Board. This demand 

 has also been more universal than for any other publication, and 

 not a day goes by which does not bring a number of calls for 

 this bulletin. As the people of the State indirectly pay for 

 the various publications of this Board, as well as those of other 

 departments, it would seem fitting that we should print what 

 is most in demand by them, and if we are to do this your honor- 

 able body must most assuredly grant an appropriation for this 

 purpose. One of the recommendations of the Board is for an 

 appropriation of $^3,000 to be devoted to gathering, preparing, 

 publishing and distributing this material. 



The Encouragement of Orcharding. 



The committee on orcharding and fruit growing, in con- 

 sidering plans for the expenditure of the annual appropriation 

 of $500 for this pm-pose, finally decided that the packing and 

 marketing of apples was the one feature which needed attention 

 more than any other. It was, therefore, decided to prepare an 

 exhibit, showing the various methods of packing fancy fruit 

 in boxes, and present this exhibit at a series of the fairs of 

 several of the agricultural societies. A schedule was prepared 

 and the exhibit was shown at fairs on the following dates and 

 at the places named : — 



Hoosac Valley Agricultural Society, at North Adams, August 

 30, 31 and September 2. « 



Highland Agricultural Society, at Middlefield, September 4 

 and 5. 



Deerfield Valley Agricultural Society, at Charlemont, Sep- 

 tember 12 and 13. 



Franklin County Agricultural Society, at Greenfield, Sep- 

 tember 18 and 19. 



Spencer Agricultural Society, at Spencer, September 20 and 

 21. 



Hillside Agricultural Society, at Cummington, September 24 

 and 2.5. 



Worcester West Agricultural Society, at Barre, September 

 26 and 27. 



