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The Legislature of 1906 also appropriated $60,000 to be 

 expended under the direction of the Chief of the Cattle 

 Bureau of the State Board of Agriculture for exterminating 

 contagious diseases among horses, cattle and other animals ; 

 also, $13,291.66 for salaries and expenses connected with 

 the office of the Cattle Bureau, and $6,416.66 for salaries 

 and expenses connected with the office of the State Forester.^ 



Arbor Day Pamphlet. 



Arbor Day in Massachusetts was established by chapter 

 32 of the Resolves of 1886, in which His Excellency was 

 requested to set apart in each year the last Saturday in 

 April as Arbor Day, and to issue an appropriate proclama- 

 tion. This provision has been complied with annually, but 

 the day has not been observed in this Commonwealth to an 

 extent as great as in several of the other States. 



In April last, largely because of an expressed desire on 

 the part of the forestry department of the State Federation 

 of Women's Clubs that a pamphlet in the interests of Arbor 

 Day might be published under State auspices, this office, 

 in co-operation with the State Board of Education, issued 

 " Arbor Day, 1906." Prior to this the only printed matter 

 on the subject issued by the State were two 8-page ' ' Cir- 

 culars for Arbor Day," issued by the State Board of Educa- 

 tion in 1892 and 1893 for use in the public schools. 



Twenty-five hundred copies of "Arbor Day, 1906," a 32- 

 page illustrated pamphlet with cover, were printed and sent 

 largely to superintendents of schools for the use primarily 

 of teachers of nature study and the natural sciences in our 

 public schools. It was hoped that the effort would result in 

 bringing about more observance of the day both on the part 

 of teacher and pupil, and that they might become more im- 

 pressed with the value of our common trees, flowers and 

 birds. 



The pamphlet contained Governor Guild's proclamation ; 

 a paper on " Arbor Day," by Mrs. Cora C. Stuart Jones, 

 chairman, department of forestry. State Federation of 

 Women's Clubs; a paper on " Arbor Day in the schools," 



> For eleven months, imding Nov. 30, 190C. 



