304 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Monks Hill in Kingston, which is one of the highest elevations in Plymouth 

 County, would not only cover the territory now reached from the Plymouth 

 tower, but would also cover a large tract west and south that we are 

 unable to reach from Plymouth. It seems, therefore, advisable that this 

 station be changed to Monks Hill, thus giving full protection to all the 

 surrounding territory. At Richmond Hill we have been obliged to erect 

 a 30-foot tower with an 8-foot room at the top. At Shoot Flying Hill 

 we have added 10 feet to the tower that was already there, making an 

 enclosed room for the observer. This station covers a large part of the 

 Cape forest area. It will be necessary to establish a substation at Bourne 

 and also one in the vicinity of Bridgewater or Hanson. These two stations, 

 covering a territory that we are unable to reach from the stations now in 

 operation, will practically complete the system in District No. 2. 



District No. 3. — We have had five stations in operation in this district: 

 Wachusett at Princeton, Fay Mountain at Westborough, Steerage Rock 

 Mountain at Brirnfield, Grace Mountain at Warwick and Lighthouse 

 Hill at Prescott. This last-named station will be discontinued and a new 

 station will probably be established on Lincoln Mountain in the town of 

 Pelham, which will better protect this territory. Steel towers have been 

 erected at Fay Mountain and at Steerage Rock Mountain this year. It 

 will be necessary to estabhsh two or three substations in this district 

 to be used the coming year. The watersheds of the Blackstone, Chicopee, 

 Miller, Nashua, Thames, Connecticut, Deerfield and Miller rivers are 

 protected from these stations. 



District No. 4- — In this district we have had four stations in operation. 

 Mount Tom at Holyoke, where Vv^e have been allowed the use of the 

 observation room at the Summit House, is an exceptionally good station, 

 as we have the use of eighteen powerful telescopes. It will be necessary 

 to install a private telephone line for use at this station the coming year. 

 On Massaemet Mountain at Shelburne Falls we have been allowed the 

 use of the 63-foot stone tower, and have enclosed the top with a 12-foot 

 octagon building. We have had an observer on Greylock Mountain 

 during a portion of the season, but owing to the high elevation of this 

 station the results are far from satisfactory. We are not only unable to 

 cover the Greylock Reservation, but we are also unable to cover the 

 large area of forest land surrounding this range. I think it will be neces- 

 sary, in order to cover this territory, to establish two stations, one on Tower 

 Mountain, in the town of Savoy, which has an elevation of 2,500 feet 

 and a second on a high point in the town of Williamstown, or, possibl}'', 

 on Berlin Mountain, just over the New York line. In case a station is 

 established on this last-named mountain it will be necessary that some 

 co-operative agreement be made between the States of New York, Ver- 

 mont and Massachusetts relative to the installation and maintenance of 

 the same, as such a station will cover a large forest area in these two ad- 

 joining States. We have also had in operation a station on Becket Moun- 

 tain in the town of Becket. Here it has been necessary to install a tele- 



