TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Minutes of Special Meetings 3 



Minutes of Executive Committee Meetings, 7 



Address of Alderman H. S. Carruth, 14 



Address of His Excellency Governor Wm. E. Eussell, ... 15 

 Lecture : The Philosophy of the Crossing of Plants. By Prof. 



L. H. Bailey, 21 



Lecture : The Agricultural Situation. By Ex-Governor W. D. 



Hoard, 65 



Remarks on the Gypsy Moth. Messrs. Sessions and Forbush, . . 85 

 Lecture : History of Sheep Husbandry in Massachusetts. By Hon. 



J. S. Grinnell 101 



Lecture : Fruit Growing ; its Demands and its Enemies. By Dr. 



Jabez Fisher 148 



Address on "Work of Weather Bureau. By J. Warren Smith, . . 183 



Lecture : Breeding and Feeding of Swine. By Theodore Louis, . 192 



Lecture : Road Making and Maintenance. By J. B. Olcott, . . 223 



Appendix to Lecture on Roads. By J. B. Olcott, .... 263 



Report of Committee on Extermination of the Gypsy Moth, . . 287 



Report of the Dairy Bureau, 313 



Returns of.the Societies, 319 



Minutes of Annual Meeting, 359 



Agricultural Exhibitions, 1892 369 



Report of the Examining Committee of the Agricultural College, . 370 



Report on Tuberculosis, 373 



Essay : The Inundated Lands of Massachusetts. By Prof. N. S. 



Shaler, 377 



Essay : The Past and Future of the Board of Agriculture. By Hon. 



J. W. Stockwell, 391 



Essay : The Laws of Competition as affecting the Massachusetts 



Farmer. By Chas. A. Mills, 405 



Essay: The Employment of Farm Labor. By W. A. Kilbourn, . 415 



Directory of Agricultural and Similar Organizations, . . . 419 

 Report on Farmers' Congress at Sedalia, Mo. By Hon. Daniel 



Needham, 437 



Report of State Cattle Commission, ....... 442 



Index, 457 



