CONTENTS. vii 



Selections from an Address, delivered at the last Fair of the Hampden 

 County Agricultural Society, by W. C. Goldthwait, Principal of 

 Westfield Academy : " The application of Science to Farming," 371 



Selections from an Address, delivered before the Hampshire, Frank- 

 lin, and Hampden Agricultural Society, at its annual Fair, 1849, 

 by Prof, John P. Norton : " The necessity for the improvement 

 of the Soil, and the means of effecting it," . . . 379 



Selections from an Address, by George S. Willis, Esq., before the 



Berkshire Agricultural Society : " Fruit Culture," . , 39G 



Selections from an Address, before the Agricultural Societies of Nor- 

 folk and Bristol Counties, by Hon. Marshall P. Wilder : " Agri- 

 culture to be advanced by Science and Agricultural Education," 402 



Selections from an Address, by Increase S. Smith, Esq., before the 

 Plymouth County Agricultural Society : " Some of the defects of 

 Fanning, and the means of remedying them," . . . 413 



Selections from an Address, by William Buckminster, Esq., before 

 the Barnstable County Agricultural Society : " Practical Hints 

 on Farming," ...... 419 



