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BOARD OF AGRIGULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



List of Toivns that have sent in no Returns of Inspectio)i of Stables. 



Aniesbury, 

 , Brookline, 

 Bradford, 

 Billerica, 

 Burlino-ton, 

 Clarksburg, 

 Colrain, 

 Conway, 

 Dedham, 

 Dover, 

 Danvers, 



East Lougmeadow, 

 East Bridgewater, 

 Erving, 

 Essex, 

 Florida, 

 Framingham, 

 Freetown, 

 Gardner, 

 Georgetown, 

 Gloucester, 

 Gosnold, 

 Greenfield, 



Greenwich, 



Halifax, 



Heath, 



Holbrook, 



Holden, 



Hyde Park, 



Holy ok e, 



Hampden, 



Leverett, 



Lincoln, 



Littleton, 



Manchester, 



Marlborough, 



Marshfield, 



Montville, 



Natick, 



Needham, 



New Ashford, 



New Salem, 



Newbury, 



Newton, 



Norfoljv. 



North Adams, 



North Attleborough, 



North Reading, 



Northbridge, 



Oakham, 



Pittsfield, 



Provincetown, 



Richmond, 



Rockland, 



Russell, 



Rutland, 



Sandisfield, 



Sheffield,. 



South Hadley, 



Sherborn , 



Springfield, 



Wareham, 



AVare, 



Wellesley, 



Winthrop, 



Wilmington, 



Woburn. 



The laboratory work, in connection with reports on hygi- 

 enic conditions of barns, has been conducted similarly to 

 last year, with a few important exceptions, which it may be 

 well to note. 



The carbonic acid determination was made a year ago, by 

 means of the apparatus devised by Professor Fitz of the 

 Lawrence Scientific School for testing air of school-rooms, 

 and, while of course not absolutely correct, yet approximate 

 results were easily obtained, comparable with one another 

 and accurate enough for all purposes of our inv^estigation. 

 This has been omitted in this year's work, as, to obtain sat- 

 isfactory results, it was necessary for an agent of the Board 

 to spend a night in the town, and visit the barns by the 

 time they were first opened in the morning. This limited 

 the examinations which one man could make to about two per 

 day, and entailed comparatively heavy travelling expenses. 

 This year, also, a part of the investigation has been left 

 to the local inspectors, so that one agent can visit two or 

 three towns and make six or eisfht examinations per day. 



