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contribution to the productions of the State. The literary work 

 performed by the members of the Board, a voluntary and unremu- 

 nerated act, without parallel in any other public service known to 

 the State, contained in this Annual Report deserves more than a 

 passing- mention here, especially, lest, like so many unobtrusive 

 charities, it be overlooked and forgotten. 



In the year 1859 I find that the members of the Board furnished 

 182 pages, including their reports upon the societies ; and the 

 subjects treated were Manures, Pasture Lands, Cattle, Diseases of 

 Vegetation, Fruit Culture, Root Crops, Market Days, and Agricul- 

 tural Education. 



In the year 1860 the members of the Board furnished 21*1 pages, 

 and the subjects treated of were Sheep Husbandry, Diseases of 

 Vegetation, Root Crops, Horses, and Flowage. 



In the year 1861 the members of the Board furnished 1T9 pages, 

 and the subjects 'treated of were Diseases of Vegetation, Cattle 

 Husbandry, Protection of Sheep and Lambs, Wastes of the Farm, 

 and Wheat Culture. 



In the year 1862 the members of the Board furnished 18t pages, 

 and the subjects treated of were the Application of Manures, the 

 Cultivation of Tobacco, the Arrangement of a Catalogue of Fruits 

 adapted to Massachusetts, and Grape Culture. 



In the year 1863 the members of the Board furnished 95 pages, 

 including their discussions ; and the subjects treated of were 

 Agricultural Education, Grape Culture, the Growing of Meat, 

 Preparation of Land for Crops, and the Cranberry. 



In the year 1864 the members of the Board furnished 181 pages, 

 and the subjects treated of were the Management of Farms, Agri- 

 cultural Education, the Corn Crop, Grape Culture, Pasture-lands, 

 Cattle Husbandry, Sheep Husbandry, Root Crops and Garden 

 Vegetables, Planting Pines and other Trees, Farm Buildings, Fruit 

 Cultivation, and Grapes. 



In the year 1865 the members of the Board furnished 289 pages, 

 and the subjects treated of were the Cattle of Massachusetts, 

 Agriculture as an Employment, the Diseases of Cattle, Sheep 

 Husbandry, Plants, Grape Culture, Manures, Drainage, Fruit Trees, 

 Forest Trees, the Dairy, Farm Accounts, Seeds, and Surveys of 

 several counties in the State. 



It is this Board, designed, as I have shown it to have been, for 

 educational purposes, organized as it is by the connection of agri- 

 cultural societies with the highest officers in the Commonwealth, 



