No. 4.] REPORT OF SECRETARY. xxiii 



Exhibit at the Panama-Pacific Exposition. 



The Board of Panama-Pacific Managers turned over to this 

 Board $5,000, to be used in making an agricultural exhibit at 

 the exposition, and after several conferences with the Board it 

 was decided to make such an exhibit. 



A committee, composed of Messrs. Albert Ellsworth, Calvert 

 H. Playdon, F. W. Rane and F. P. Newkirk, was appointed at 

 the summer field meeting, June, 1914, and a plan already 

 mapped out was decided upon, namely, to collect data relative 

 to ^Massachusetts agriculture, consisting of pictures, maps, 

 charts and booklets, designed to call attention to the agri- 

 cultural possibilities in our State. The State forestry depart- 

 ment was also given some money, and it was decided to com- 

 bine the exhibits. Mr. Warren H. Manning was retained by 

 the committee to perfect the plan, which was as follows: — 



That two large relief maps of the State should be made, one 

 showing conditions much as they are, the other showing to 

 what agriculture and forestry development should lead. The 

 Board may be congratulated on having secured Mr. Manning's 

 services, for with his great knowledge of conditions in the 

 State, and the help of other departments, we have been able to 

 collect more data in one place relative to the resources and 

 condilions of the State than was ever before brought together. 



Other features of the exhibit are pictures of all phases of 

 Massachusetts agriculture, which are to be shown in an auto- 

 matic machine, as well as moving pictures of actual farm 

 operations on Massachusetts agriculture; road and railroad 

 maps and an exhibit of old agricultural tools make up the 

 balance of the display which will undoubtedly form a unique 

 feature of the exposition. A splendid location at the exposition 

 has been secured in the agricultural building, and the exhibit is 

 well on its way at this time. 



Horticultural Exhibit. 



In addition to the agricultural exhibit, your secretary was 



requested by the Board of Panama-Pacific Managers to get 



together an exhibit of Massachusetts horticultural products, 



and as our State is producing a great deal of the best orna- 



