THIRTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, TOGETHER WITH THE EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 1890. BOSTON: WRIGHT & POTTER PRINTING CO., STATE PRINTERS, 18 POST OFFICE SQUARE. Address of J. Lewis Ellsworth, President Worcester Agricultural Lecture: What have our Experiment Stations done for the Farmers? Lecture: Birds of Massachusetts. By Dr. B. H. Warren, Address of His Excellency Governor J. Q. A. Brackett, Lecture: The Dairy Temperament of Cows. By Governor W. D. Lecture: Some Conditions for Success in New England Agricult- Essay: The Board of Agriculture and the Agricultural Societies; can they Broaden and Improve their Work? By W. II. Bowker,. Directory of Agricultural and Similar Organizations, The State Board of Agriculture, history of, Lettuce and Cucumber Culture under Glass, The Grape Industry in Massachusetts, 21357 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. Members ex Officio. HIS EXCELLENCY WM. E. RUSSELL. HIS HONOR WM. H. HAILE. HON. WM. M. OLIN, Secretary of the Commonwealth. H. H. GOODELL, M.A., President Massachusetts Agricultural College. Members Appointed by the Governor and Council. JAMES W. STOCKWELL of Sutton, Members Chosen by the Incorporated Societies. Amesbury and Salisbury (AgrF. W. SARGENT of Amesbury, and Hort'l), F. H. APPLETON of Peabody (P. O. Lynnfield), 1893 N. W. SHAW of North Raynham, WM. HOLBROOK, M.D., of Palmer, BENJAMIN P. WARE of Marblehead (P. O. J. D. AVERY of Buckland, J. C. NEWHALL of Conway, C. F. FOWLER of Westfield, D. A. HORTON of Northampton, Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden, E. C. CLAPP of Northampton,. Highland, HIRAM TAYLOR of Middlefi Id, 1894 1894 1893 1893 . 1894 1893 1892 1894 1892 1894 Middlesex, Middlesex North, Middlesex South, Nantucket, Oxford, Plymouth County, Spencer (Far's and Mech's Assoc'n), J. G. AVERY of Spencer,. J. H. ROWLEY of Egremont Plain, W. W. RAWSON of Arlington, Secretary of the Board, WILLIAM R. SESSIONS of Hampden. |