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Also the Legislature of 1897 made the following regular 

 annual appropriations : for maintaining an agricultural ex- 

 periment station at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 

 $10,000 ; for the said college, for free scholarships, $10,000 ; 

 for the said college, for labor fund and extra instruction, 

 $10,000 ; for travelling and other necessary expenses of 

 the trustees of the said college, $800 ; and to defray ex- 

 penses of collecting and analyzing samples of concentrated 

 commercial feed stuffs, $1,200. The Legislature also appro- 

 priated $150,000 for carrying forward the work of exter- 

 mination of the gypsy moth, and $12,000 for repairs and im- 

 provements at the Agricultural College. The appropriations 

 thus listed amount to the sum of $242,027.13. 



Legislation. 



The legislation of 1897 having reference to the Board of 

 Agriculture or to the agricultural societies was "An act 

 making appropriations for sundry agricultural expenses" 

 (Acts of 1897, chapter 59) ; " An act making an appropria- 

 tion for continuing the work of extermination of the gypsy 

 moth" (Acts of 1897, chapter 107); "An act to require 

 local authorities to suppress the brown-tail moth " (Acts of 

 1897, chapter 516) ; "A resolve to provide for printing the 

 special report of the Board of Agriculture on the extermina- 

 tion of the gypsy moth" (Resolves of 1897, chapter 20). 



Also, through the efforts of the State Board of Agricult- 

 ure and others interested, the Legislature of 1897 passed an 

 act " relative to concentrated commercial feed stuffs. " * This 

 act placed the work in the hands of the director of the Hatch 

 Experiment Station of the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege, and appropriated the sum of twelve hundred dollars 

 annually to defray the expenses of collecting and analyzing 

 the samples and of publishing the results. It is understood 

 that since October last the station has had a man cover the 

 entire State, and some three hundred samples have been 

 taken, which are now being examined. It is intended to 

 publish the results in a bulletin within a very short time. 

 It is also intended to make another collection in March, and 

 also a special collection very soon for cotton-seed meal. 



* See chapter 117, Acts of 1897. 



