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NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. 



Abstract of the Returns of the Massachusetts Agricultural Socie- 

 ties : pp. 198, 8vo. 



Statistics of the Condition and Prospects of certain branches of 

 Industry in Massachusetts, for the year ending April 1, 1845 : 

 pp. 391, 8vo. 



The volumes the titles of which we have copied above, are the 

 first of a series of volumes whose publication has been authorized 

 by acts of the legislature. The first volume contains or is made 

 up of abstracts of the doings of the state and county agricultural 

 societies, and embraces a variety, as well as a great amount, of 

 useful information on husbandry in general. The object of the 

 law requiring the publication of matters of this kind is highly 

 important and useful, as it is only by this mode that practical in- 

 formation on the best modes pursued by the profession, or in the 

 respective branches of husbandry can become at all widely disse- 

 minated. 



Both publications were prepared by the Hon. J. G. Palfrey, Se- 

 cretary of the Commonwealth. We propose enriching our 

 columns with extracts from these works. 



The most complete report is that of the Essex County Agricul- 

 tural Society. The first committee's report relates to the economy 

 of plowing with double teams, in which they give it as their opinion 

 that those plows are the best which lay the furrow slice flat 

 and even, especially where the ground is to be laid down to grass. 

 The plowman should not attempt to cut a furrow slice wider than 

 the plow was intended to cut. 



Another committee recommends plowing with a single yoke of 

 oxen, and to cut a furrow less deep, and if advisable to increase 



