TENTH ANNUAL REPORT OE THE STATE 

 ORNITHOLOGIST. 



To the Honorable Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture. 



Gentlemen : — Much of the work of the year has consisted 

 of collecting data and gathering material for publications, but 

 owing to the war demand for literature on planting, culti- 

 vation and storing garden and farm products there has been 

 little money available for publications on economic ornithology. 

 Two brief papers have been prepared and printed, and three 

 papers have been reprinted. An arbor and bird day leaflet was 

 prepared in collaboration with the secretary of the Massachu- 

 setts Forestry Association, and was distributed before arbor day 

 by the State Board of Education to the rural schools of the 

 Commonwealth. This leaflet was published by the Massachu- 

 setts Forestry Association, and the colored plates were pro- 

 vided bj'- the Board of Agriculture. The Board also published 

 a circular on the storage of fruits and vegetables, written by the 

 State Ornithologist at a time when no one else connected with 

 the Board could find time to write it. The titles of these pub- 

 lications follow: — 



Publications of the Year. 

 Massachusetts Forestry Association. Arbor and Bird Day. Edward 

 Howe Forbush, State Ornithologist, and Harris A. Reynolds, Secre- 

 tary, Massachusetts Forestry Association. 

 Circular No. 75, Common Storage of Fruits and Vegetables. Edward 



Howe Forbush. 

 Reprints : — 

 Ninth Annual Report of the State Ornithologist. 

 Bird Houses and Nesting Boxes, Circular No. 47. 

 Owl Friends, Nature Leaflet No. 14. 



Material has been collected for a bulletin on the means of 

 attracting birds and increasing their numbers, but this could 

 not be pubhshed in 1917. 



