ABSTRACT. 



MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY EOR PROMOTING AGRI- 

 CULTURE. 



The President and Secretary of the Massachusetts Society 

 for Promoting Agriculture, in obedience to the requisitions of the 

 act of 11th of March last, make return to the secretary of the 

 Commonwealth of the transactions and expenditures of said 

 society, as appears on their records of the last year. 



The whole income of their funds, and their active duties as 

 trustees, have been devoted to the furtherance of the objects set 

 forth in their two preceding annual returns, viz : that of rear- 

 ing a breed of cattle (particularly milking cows) to the highest 

 perfection, by the importation, judicious selection, and distribu- 

 tion of the best stock which they were enabled to procure in 

 Europe. 



The reports, therefore, required by the act to be returned to 

 the secretary of the Commonwealth, are the reports of Mr. 

 Phinney, one of the board of trustees, to whom the care of the 

 imported stock, under the supervision of a committee of the 

 board, has been entrusted. Although these reports are made 

 monthly, the substance of them has been condensed by Mr. 

 Phinney into his report for December last, which is returned 

 herewi ih. The model horse, which was the subject of a lecture 



