PAPERS 



Accompanying- the Report of the Trustees. 



A. Reports. — Report of the Farm of S. B. Townsend — of the cam- 



miltee on Fruit Flowers and Vegetables — Agricultural and Dai- 

 ry productions — on the Ploughing and Spading Matches — Ex- 

 tracts from Reports at the 18th Fair — Reports of the Commit- 

 tee on Arts and Sciences on Slocum's Cotton Press, Scripture's 

 Horse Power, and Billings and Harrison's Flax and Hemp 

 Dressing and Rotting MaoJiinery. 



B. Communications from Contributors. — Oddie on Oat and Com 



Culture — Coggeshall on Barley, Rye and Corn — Jewett on 

 Corn — Kimball on Wheat — Bergen on Wheat — Tibbits on 

 Wheat — Van Siclen on Potatoes — Deere on Pumpkin Squash 

 — Fenn on Pumpkins — Mead on Ruta Baga and Blood Beets 

 — Leland on Hop Culture — Billings on the culture of Flax and 

 Hemp — Smith on Apples — Manning on the Pear — Ives on the 

 Pear — Bates on Cranberry — Ewbank on Grapes — Swain on 

 Grapes — Noyes on Grapes — Patchen on Horses — Latting on 

 Milch Cows — Blakeslee on Stock — Mclntyre on Sheep — Hal- 

 lock on Sheep — Jones' Seed Planter — Haynes' Horse Rake — 

 Thome's Hay Straw and Corn-stalk Cutter. 



C. Extracts from Communications. — On the treatment of Salt 



Hay and Sedge as a Manure — .\nalysis of Soils by Thomas 

 Kerr — Consumption of Cattle in New- York — Marl — Culture 

 of the Peach — Curing Meat — Roots for Stock — Insects injuri- 

 ous to Crops — Fences — The Tannier, anew esculent — Under- 

 bill on sowing Wheat — Land Culture — Meigs on the Disease of 

 the Potato. 



D. Premiums awarded in the Department of Manufactures and the 



Arts at the 18th Annual Fair, 1845. 



