No. 4.J 



REPORT OF STATE FORESTER. 



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Pomona Grange, Mcdway. 



Canton Lecture Course. 



Fitchburg City Government. 



Newton Men's Club. 



Northfield Grange. 



Grange, Southborough. 



Amesbury Park Association. 



Norfolk County Associated Board of 



Trade. 

 Public Meeting, Great Barrington. 

 Old Colony Pomona Grange, Easton. 

 State Grange Field Day, Monterey. 



Old Colony Pomona, Dartmouth. 

 Cape Ann Literary and Scientific So- 

 ciety, Gloucester. 

 State Grange Field Day, Montague. 

 Pomona Grange, Billerica. 

 Men's Club, Hopedale. 

 Citizens' Meeting, Carver. 

 Firemen's Muster, Hanover. 

 State Grange Field Day, Pembroke. 

 Arbor Day Exercises, Winthrop. 

 State Grange Field Day, Templeton. 

 New England Tax Association. 



Field Meetings of the State Grange. 

 No more potent factor exists for the uplift of humanity and the 

 promotion and advancement of all contributory agencies to 

 material prosperity in rural communities than the work of the 

 order known throughout the country as the Patrons of Husbandry. 

 Nearly every town and village in Massachusetts has its grange 

 hall, where at stated intervals the members of the order gather 

 and discuss questions of importance relating to the welfare of the 

 nation, State or their local communities. The objects of the order 

 are to aid in the development of everything which may add to 

 the wealth and power of the nation, and bring to its people the 

 fullest measure of comfort and happiness. In order to stimulate 

 the interest of its members in all movements for the betterment 

 of economic conditions in Massachusetts, the State master, 

 Charles ]\I. Gardner, this year arranged for and held a series of 

 field meetings that were addressed by representatives of various 

 State departments, each of whom spoke in detail of the work of 

 his department. The State Forester's office was represented by 

 the secretary, Charles O. Bailey, at the meetings held at Pem- 

 broke, Greenwich Village, Montague, Templeton, Monterey, 

 Blandford, Sunderland and Dartmouth. The work of reforesta-' 

 tion, the development of the forest fire system, and other branches 

 of forestry were discussed by the speaker, and the decidedly 

 marked interest manifested by the audience at each meeting was 

 extremely gratifying, and must be regarded as an indication of 

 the enthusiastic favor with which the forestry movement is held 

 generally by the people of the Commonwealth. 



