TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



State Board of Agriculture, 1911, .... 

 Report of the Secretary, ..... 



Summary of Crop Conditions, 1910, 

 Public Winter Meeting of the Board at Northampton, 

 Address of Welcome by His Honor Mayor Calvin Coolidge 

 Response for the Board by Secretary Ellsworth, 

 Lecture: New England Pastures. By Mr. J. S. Cotton, 

 Lecture: The Production of Market Milk. By Mr. A. J. Pier- 



pont, ........ 



Lecture: The Food Value of Clean Milk; the demand for Clean 



Milk; the Reasonableness of it. By Prof. R. M. Washburn, 

 Lecture: Farm Management. By Hon. N. P. Hull, 

 Lecture: Harvesting and Curing Cigar Wrapper Tobacco. By 



Dr. W. W. Garner, 



Summer Field Meeting of the Board at Amherst, 



Lecture: Corn Growing in New England. By Prof. L. A 



Clinton, . . 

 Essay: Corn Selection for Seed and for Show. By Prof. W'illiam 



D. Hurd, 



Essay: Growing and Marketing Asparagus. By Mr. Frank 



Wheeler, ......... 



Essay: Alfalfa as a Crop in Massachusetts. By Prof. William P 



Brooks, ......... 



Essay: Celery Growing, Storing, and Marketing. By Mr 



Henry M. Howard, 

 Essay: Quince Culture. By Prof. F. C. Sears, 

 Essay: Grape Culture. By Mr. Edward R. Farrar, 

 Ninth Annual Report of the State Nursery Inspector, 

 Third Annual Report of the State Ornithologist, 

 First Annual Report of the State Inspector of Apiaries, 

 Twentieth Annual Report of the State Dairy Bureau, 

 Seventh Annual Report of the State Forester, . 

 Eighteenth Semiannual Report of the Chief of the Cattle Bureau 

 Returns of the Agricultural Societies, .... 



Agricultural Directory, ....... 



Index, .......... 



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