TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Report of Secretary, vii 



Minutes of Executive Committee Meetings, ..... 3 



Minutes of Special Meeting of the Board, 11 



Public Winter Meeting of the Board at Great Barrington, . . 23 



Address of Welcome. By Hon. J. H. Rowley, 23 



Lecture: Raising Crops with Commercial Fertilizers. By S. I. 



Parker, 28 



Lecture : The Handling and Feeding of Dairy Cattle. By Ex-Gov. 



W. D. Hoard, 53 



Lecture : Judging Animals by Scale of Points. By Dr. G. M. 



Twitchell, 90 



Lecture: The Horse. By Hon. John E. Russell, .... 115 

 Lecture : Education for the Agricultural aud other Industrial 



Classes. By Prof. Geo. F. Mills, 129 



Lecture : Fruit Growing. By E. W. Wood, 161 



Report of State Board of Cattle Commissioners, .... 195 



Third Annual Report of the Dairy Bureau, 237 



Report on Extermination of the Gypsy Moth, 262 



Returns of the Societies, 303 



Minutes of the Annual Meeting, 337 



Agricultural Exhibitions, 1894, 351 



Report of Examining Committee of the Agricultui-al College, . . 352 



Essay: Tobacco Culture. By C. F. Fowler, 354 



Essay: Cranberry Culture. By Edmund Hersey, .... 365 



Essay : The Pleasures of Farming. By Wra. Bancroft, . . . 371 

 Essay : The Reclamation of Exhausted Farms by Practical Methods. 



By Elbridge Cushman, 383 



Directory of Agricultural and Similar Organizations, .... 399 

 Report on Farmers' Congress at Savannah, Ga. By Hon. Daniel 



Needham, 414 



Statute Laws, By-Laws, Rules and Regulations, 421 



Index, 457 



