No. 4.] • REPORT OF SECRETARY. xxxix 



Following the demand of poiiltrymen, a law was passed 

 authorizing the detention by the owner of poultry, or by his 

 agent or employee, of any one found in his poultry house 

 without permission, and providing a severe penalty. In order 

 that the protection thus afforded to keepers of poultry may be 

 made well known, it is recommended that the secretary of the 

 Board be enabled by legislative action to print and distribute 

 such quantities of posters bearing the aforenamed act as may 

 be required to meet the demand. The cost can be paid for 

 out of the appropriation for incidental and contingent expenses. 



Complaint from one source and another, of the nuisance 

 committed by unauthorized persons in dumping rubbish on the 

 property of others, leads to the recommendation that legislation 

 be passed prohibiting such dumping and providing a penalty 

 therefor. 



It also seems desirable to amend existing law so as to prohibit 

 the moving from one place to another on the land of another, 

 without permission, such objects as are already protected from 

 being cut down or carried away by those not authorized. 



Legislation of 1914. 

 Out of fourteen recommendations for legislation only eight 

 met with favorable consideration by the Legislature of 1914. 

 The method of publishing the annual report was changed so as 

 to provide for a more economical expenditure of the appropria- 

 tion for this purpose. The annual report of the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural Experiment Station was removed, as agreed to by 

 the station, and the edition of the report reduced from 15,000 

 copies to not more than 10,000 copies, while authorization was 

 given to print separates from the report in editions of not more 

 than 10,000 copies each. The month in which societies shall 

 receive their bounties was changed from October to August, in 

 order that the money might be immediately available for use 

 at the current fairs. An increase of $1,000 was allowed for use 

 in premiums to children and youths for home and school 

 garden work, domestic science and exhibits. The poultry 

 premium bounty was restricted, and the payment thereof and 

 the filing of returns regulated. The sale of the cloth posters, 

 giving the extracts from the trespass laws, was authorized. 



