FIFTY-EIGHTH

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY

OF THE

MASSACHUSETTS

STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE,

TOGETHER WITH THE

TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MASSACHUSETTS
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION.

WRIGHT & POTTER PRINTING CO., STATE PRINTERS,
18 POST OFFICE SQUARE.

1911.

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,

1

3

5

7

24

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,

98

Essay: Corn Selection for Seed and for Show. By Prof. William

D. Hurd, .

113

Essay: Growing and Marketing Asparagus. By Mr. Frank

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

Brooks,

127

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

Henry M. Howard,

136

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

143

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, 297

Returns of the Agricultural Societies,

323

Agricultural Directory,

333

Index, .

357

STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, 1911.

Members ex Officio.

HIS EXCELLENCY EUGENE N. FOSS.

HIS HONOR LOUIS A. FROTHINGHAM.

Hon. WM. M. OLIN, Secretary of the Commonwealth.

KENYON L. BUTTERFIELD, LL.D., President Massachusetts Agricultural College.
FREDERICK F. WALKER, Chief of the Cattle Bureau.

F. WM. RANE, B. AGR., M.S., State Forester.

J. LEWIS ELLSWORTH, Secretary of the Board.

Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden, FRANK P. NEWKIRK of Easthampton,

Highland,

1912

.

Marshfield (Agricultural and Hort'l), WALTER H. FAUNCE of Kingston,

Martha's Vineyard,

Massachusetts Horticultural,
Massachusetts Society for Promoting
Agriculture,
Middlesex North,

Middleser South,

Nantucket,

Oxford,

Plymouth County,

Spencer (Farmers' and Mech's Ass'n),
Union (Agricultural and Hort'l),
Weymouth (Agricultural and Ind'l),.

Worcester,

Worcester East,

Worcester Northwest (Agricultural and
Mechanical),
Worcester South,

Worcester County West,

JAMES F. ADAMS of West Tisbury,
WILFRID WHEELER of Concord,

1912

1913

1912

1 Successor not yet appointed.