CONTENTS 



Officers for 1S64 3 



Charter of incorporation 5 



Board of Agriculture, Act organizing , 6 



Debt, Act funding ", t 



Constitiitiou of Society 9 



Address of M. C. Briggs 14 



Trials and results of speed, 1864 22 



Premiums awarded in 1864 27 



Annual meeting, 1865 29 



Report of the Board for 1864 29 



Reports of Treasurer and Secretary for 1864 43 



Officers for 1865 54 



Report of the Board for 1865 to the Governor 55 



History of the society for 1864 and 1865 57 



Finance 59 



Statistics % 60 



Bureau of Immigration 61 



Sheep husbandry and dogs 63 



Cattle plague 65 



Feueiug, and grain farming 66 



Immigration 69 



Land titles 75 



Agricultural lands in mineral districts 76 



Agrioilltural College lands 77 



Agricultural and Mechanic. Arts College 78 



Annual meeting for 1866 94 



Supplemental report of the Board for 18G5 94 



Reports of Treasurer and Secretary for 1865 '. 95 



Reports of Committees 107 



Agricultural College Resolutions 109 



Henry Clay's picture Ill 



Corps of Scientific Officers organized 112 



Report of Dr. J. G. Cooper, Geologist 116 



Report of Dr. H. Behr, Entomologist 129 



Report of Prof. H. M. Bolandcr, Botanist, on the Grasses of the State 1"1 



Report of Dr. A. Kellogg, Botanist, on the Trees and Shrubbery of the State 146 



Report of Dr. Thomas M. Logan, Meteorologist 164 



Report of Dr. R. Oxland, Metallurgist and Chemist 171 



