234 BOAKD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN. 



[Adopted at the Annual Meeting, Jan. 8, 1901.] 



To the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture. 



Sir: — The fourth report of the librarian is herewith pre- 

 sented. 



In accordance with the instructions of the Board, the 

 unbound copies of the library catalogue have been bound. 

 Copies have quite generally been placed in near-by public 

 libraries ; libraries of educational institutions have also been 

 supplied. The edition was 500 copies, and 150 remain 

 undistributed. 



The librarian's suggestion of last year, that ' ' books bor- 

 rowed from the library of the Board must be receipted for 

 and returned within one month," having been adopted, the 

 plan of loaning books to responsible parties has been in force 

 the past year, and 46 books have been so loaned. 



It is interesting to notice that works on forestry and 

 arboriculture have ])een those most in demand, 9 in all. 

 Six works on entomology and 6 on cattle were loaned, 4 on 

 landscape gardening, 4 on flowers, 3 on farm implements 

 and machinery, 2 on birds, 2 on tuberculosis and 1 each on 

 market gardening, spraying, botany, horticulture, zoology, 

 goats, beet sugar, farm engineering, statistics, and a scien- 

 tific report. 



Back volumes of the " Agriculture of Massachusetts " have 

 been supplied on call, as in past years, to institutions and 

 to individuals. The institutions receiving the largest num- 

 ber of volumes were the Ohio Department of Agriculture, 

 Columbia University, Syracuse University and the Univer- 

 sity of California. 



The library now has 20,600 index cards to experiment 

 station literature, 534 to the publications of the United 



