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vocations and no doubt cannot afford to come together so 

 often, but if you have requests to make or ideas to advance, 

 please do not hesitate to send them in. You are in close touch 

 with your neighboring farmers and ought to know if we can 

 help them, and it is largely through you that we may be of 

 service. 



Let us go out this year and preach the gospel of better farm- 

 ing for Massachusetts, better crops, better marketing, so that 

 conditions in the rural districts will be such that a better 

 citizenship may grow up in our State, founded upon the 

 integrity and right living toward which life in the open country 

 should lead. 



Summary of Recommendations of the State Board of 



Agriculture. 



1. That the annual salary of the General Agent of the Dairy 

 Bureau be increased from $1,800 to $2,300. 



2. That transportation companies, common carriers and 

 other persons bringing broods of bees into the state be required 

 to notify the State Inspector of Apiaries immediately of such 

 shipments in order that, if deemed necessary, they may be in- 

 spected. Further, that the salary of the State Inspector of 

 Apiaries be fixed at $500 per annum instead of $5 per diem, 

 and that an increase from $2,000 to $3,000 be allowed for 

 apiary inspection. 



3. That the State Nursery Inspector and his deputies be 

 authorized to inspect and, if necessary, to destroy, treat or 

 return fruit brought into the state suspected of being infested 

 with injurious insects or plant diseases liable to establish them- 

 selves in Massachusetts, and that an additional appropriation 

 of $2,000 be provided for this purpose. 



4. That cities and towns of 10,000 or more inhabitants be 

 required to provide and maintain public markets for the dis- 

 posal of farm produce. 



5. That the trespass laws be amended so as to prohibit the 

 moving, by unauthorized persons of certain objects resting on 

 the land of another. 



6. That there be established a INIassachusetts land bank. 



