PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. 
The interest aroused by this report on its first appearance, 
in the fifty-second annual report of the State Board of Agri- 
culture, was such that the usual edition of separates was 
doubled. When these separates were exhausted, the contin- 
ued demand induced the author to prepare the present 
edition, with a view of bringing the report down to 1908. 
In addition to the original report, some improvements in the 
bird and game laws of the Hew England States are ap- 
pended on pages 114-118. Most of these laws are such as 
were recommended in this report, and they have been enacted 
in the four years since the first edition was published. 
EDWARD HOWE EORBUSH. 
June 1 , 1908 . 
