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grew wider until we put it up to $1.50 ; there was a shortage 

 one year, and they brought $2. So we are able to get from 

 $1.50 to $2 a half-bushel basket for Satsuma plums, when 

 peaches of a high grade won't bring over $1, and other 

 ojrades won't brino- that. 



Evening Session. 

 An evening session was held at 8 o'clock, at which Mr. 

 Edward Howe Forbush, ornithologist to the Board, deliv- 

 ered a stereopticon lecture on ' ' Useful birds : how to attract 

 and protect them." By request, the lecture is not included 

 in this volume. 



SECOND DAY. 



The morning session was opened at 10.30 o'clock by Sec- 

 retary Ellsworth, who introduced Mr. Warren C. Jewett of 

 Worcester as the presiding officer. 



The Chair. The subject we have before us this morning 

 is one that is often before the pul)lic, as it interests many 

 people outside of agriculture, but it aftects the majority of 

 the farmers of Massachusetts more than any one, really, — 

 "The production of sanitary milk." When the State Board 

 of Health wants us to make it at the prices we are alile to get 

 for it, it is certainly a serious question to the farmers of 

 Massachusetts. I think we are fortunate to have the speaker 

 we have before us, a man with a large amount of experience 

 and observation. I have the pleasure of introducing to you 

 Mr. F. E. Dawley, State Director of Farmers' Institutes, 

 Fayetteville, N. Y. 



