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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



in a year; and with the present demand, this means that all 

 of them cannot be kept in print at the same time. Bulletin 

 No. 5, "Vegetable Growing," has now been out of print for 

 over six months. It is hoped that this can be republished dur- 

 ing the present year, as also a new bulletin, to be called No. 7, 

 and which is to cover orchard fruits, with the exception of the 

 apple. 



Legislative Appropriations. 



Odjects for which appropriated. 



1914. 



Appropriation. 



Used. 



Traveling and necessary expenses of the Board 



Salaries of secretary and clerks, ....... 



Traveling and necessary expenses of the secretary, 



Lectures before the Board and extra clerical assistance, 



Incidental, ........... 



Dissemination of useful information in agriculture, 



Printing 5,000 copies of "Agriculture in Massachusetts," and 

 separata 



Bounties to agricultural societies, 



Poultry premium bounties 



Encouragement of orcharding, 



State apiary inspection, 



State nursery inspection 



State Ornithologist, salary and expenses 



Special exhibitions 



Premiums to children, 



Encouragement of dairying, 



Reclaiming wet lands, 



Dairy Bureau, salaries and expenses, ...... 



SI, 400 00 

 5,700 00 

 500 00 

 1,600 00 

 2,000 00 

 8,800 00 



6,000 00 



30,000 00 



2,000 00 



500 00 



2,000 00 



15,000 00 



2,500 00 



2,000 00 



2,000 00 



6,165 191 



25,000 002 



10,300 00 



5123,465 19 



SI, 498 79 

 5,700 00 

 384 90 

 1,584 51 

 1,974 11 

 8,463 03 



4,159 24 



30,000 99 



1,981 46 



451 12 

 1,996 47 



11,395 46 

 2,499 74 

 2,000 04 

 1,855 35 

 5,379 28 



452 45 

 10,297 66 



492,074 60 



1 Total available. 



2 Jointly with the State Board of Health. 



The Outlook for the Comixg Year. 

 Agriculture, in many branches, probably never had a more 

 promising outlook than that for 1915. The war in Europe is 

 bound to curtail production very heavily in all of the countries 

 engaged, and it will therefore remain for this country to supply 

 the enormous waste which this war has entailed. Crops of 



