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imported fertilizers. The State Agricultural College 

 was also a beneficiary of the society during the same 

 period, the gift being about $250, each year, for schol- 

 arships. Various other things helpful to agriculture 

 were done, among which were the issuing of pam- 

 phlets, treating on new or otherwise pertinent topics ; 

 the donation of $500 as premiums at the exhibition of 

 the Pomological Society in 1873, and $500 to the same 

 in 1880; a gift of $200 to aid an ingenious student at 

 the Agricultural College in perfecting his device for 

 a steam plough; a gift of $500 to aid the Agassiz 

 summer school at Pemikese island, a part of the in- 

 struction there given, having relation to agriculture; a 

 gift of $250 for engraving plates to illustrate a treatise 

 on the fungi of trees and plants, being the result of 

 studies by one of the professors at the Bussey Insti- 

 tute; also for translating and printing an illustrated 

 French work on tree pruning, for gratuitous distribu- 

 tion, $300; and for premiums at a butter show in 

 Greenfield, in 1879, $100. 



In 1874 the society made an importation of a bull 

 and eight cows of Guernsey stock, for the purchase of 

 which President Motley visited the isle of Guernsey. 

 The bull was named in the American herd book the 

 "Duke of Guernsey," thereby disusing the English 

 herd-book name, though still permitting in the record 

 the pedigree to be traced. A fine photograph of the 

 animal was obtained, which continues to adorn the 

 wall of the society's office, and attracts the attention 

 and commands the admiration of visiting connoisseurs. 

 The herd, on arrival, was placed in a suitable building 

 on the Bussey Farm, the use of which was granted by 

 the college authorities. Some extraordinary statistics 

 of yield of milk and butter are contained in the 

 society's records relating to this herd. The calves 



