FIFTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE MASSACHUSETTS STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, TOGETHER WITH THE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE HATCH EXPERI- WRIGHT & POTTER PRINTING CO., STATE PRINTERS, 18 POST OFFICE SQUARE. 1906. Sci 1635.2 HARYARD COLLEGE LIDHAR OCT 23 1908 APPROVED BY THE STATE BOARD OF PUBLICATION. 133 Minutes of Special Business Meetings of the Board, Summer Field Meeting of the Board at Lowell, Public Winter Meeting of the Board at Worcester, Lecture: Market Gardening. By Mr. Henry M. Howard, Lecture: The Soil: Importance of its Character for the Culture Lecture: Education and Industry. By Dr. W. E. Stone, Lecture: A Campaign for Rural Progress. By President Kenyon Remarks at the Evening Session by Messrs. Ledyard Bill, O. B. Hadwen, Burton W. Potter, Harry W. Goddard and Kenyon Lecture: Nitrogen in Relation to Soil Fertility. By Dr. Chas. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Board, Report of Committee on Agricultural Societies, Report of Committee on Experiments and Station Work, Report of Committee on Institutes and Public Meetings, Report of Committee on Massachusetts Agricultural College, Eighth Semiannual Report of the Chief of the Cattle Bureau, Fifteenth Annual Report of the State Dairy Bureau, STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, 1906. Members ex Officio. HIS EXCELLENCY CURTIS GUILD, JR. HIS HONOR EBEN S. DRAPER. HON. WM. M. OLIN, Secretary of the Commonwealth. KENYON L. BUTTERFIELD, M.A., President Massachusetts Agricultural College (after July 1). C. A. GOESSMANN, PH.D., LL.D., Chemist of the Board. AUSTIN PETERS, M.R.C.V.S., Chief of the Cattle Bureau. ALFRED AKERMAN, M.F., State Forester. J. LEWIS ELLSWORTH, Secretary of the Board. Members chosen by the Incorporated Societies. Amesbury and Salisbury (Agr'l and J. J. MASON of Amesbury, Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden, WM. A. BAILEY of Northampton, A. M. STEVENS of Williamstown, 1909 1907 1909 1 Successor of Mr. Henry S. Perham, who died February 25. |