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Board of Agriculture and the public in the hope that a 

 further knowledge of what the library contains may lead to 

 a more extensive use of its privileges. It is open to the 

 public during business hours. 



In these and many other directions the Board of Agri- 

 culture and its secretary are endeavoring to be of use to the 

 agriculturists of the State. The volume "Agriculture of 

 Massachusetts" for 1897, containing, as it does, the lectures 

 and discussions at the public winter meeting, the reports of 

 the committees and business of the Board, the report of the 

 Hatch Experiment Station, the report of the Cattle Commis- 

 sioners, the statistics of the several incorporated agricultural 

 societies, a directory of the various agricultural organizations 

 of the State, together with other valuable and interesting 

 papers on agricultural matters, is believed to be the equal in 

 value to any of its predecessors, and is commended to the 

 attention of the farmers of the State, for whose benefit it is 

 printed and distributed by the liberality of the State of 

 Massachusetts. 



WM. R. SESSIONS, 



Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture. 

 Boston, February, 1898. 



