Sixty-Third Annual Report of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, Vol. 1
Report of Secretary and Other Officers, 1915 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Sixty-Third Annual Report of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, Vol. 1: Report of Secretary and Other Officers, 1915<br><br>The annual report of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, known as "Agriculture of Massachusetts," is this year offered to the public in two parts, of which this volume is the first.<br><br>The circulars which are published by the Board from time to time during the year, including the lectures and discussions at the Public Winter Meeting, are of interest to a much larger public than the routine reports of the various phases of the Boards activities. Hitherto, people who wished the informational matter obtained in the circulars have been obliged to take with it routine statistics which they often did not care for. For this reason, beginning with this number. Part I. will comprise the annual report of the secretary, the annual reports of the State Nursery Inspector, State Inspector of Apiaries, State Ornithologist, the Dairy Bureau, the specialist on boys' and girls' agricultural club work, the returns of the agricultural societies and the directory of agricultural organizations. Of Part I. only 1,500 copies will be printed.<br><br>Part II. will contain the lectures and discussions given at the Public Winter Meeting and such circulars as may have been issued the previous year. Beginning with this volume, the annual report of the State Forester will not appear with the report of the State Board of Agriculture.<br><br>It is desired to call the attention of persons wishing any particular one of the routine reports to the fact that they are also published as separate pamphlets, and a person desiring the report of the State Inspector of Apiaries, for example, is advised to apply for it in separate form rather than for the whole of Part I.<br><br>Libraries wishing to keep a complete set of these volumes since their institution in 1852 may still do so by getting both parts.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.