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Manures, treatment of, 198, 199, 200 



Manures, value of, 198, 199, 200, 202 



Martha's Vineyard Agricultural Society, 269 



Methods of propagating different plants, 248, 250, 251 



Meteorology, lecture on, 147, 149 



Middlesex County, agricultural surv'ey of, 285, 288, 290 



Middlesex County, fruit culture in, 287 



Middlesex County, thoroughbred stock in, 289, 290 



Milk, quantity of necessary to produce a pound of butter, 231 



Milk, report on, 230, 232 



Moore, J. B., report by, 285, 288, 290 



Nantucket, agricultural survey of, 256, 260, 264 



Nantucket, farms in, ... 261 



Nantucket, peat in, 2G1, 262, 263 



Nantucket, thoroughbred stock in, 260 



Necessity for farm accounts, 239, 240, 243 



New England Agricultural Society, 24 



Owls, agricultural value of, 95, 96 



Pathological anatomy, 15, 16 



Peat, . . . ^. . 26,261,262,263 



Perkins, C. O., essay by, 239, 244, 246 



Plants, adaptation of to soil, climate, &c., lecture on, . . . . 130, 136, 142, 147 



Plants, fertilization of by insects, 144, 145 



Plants, methods of propagating, 247, 250, 252 



Plants, structure of, . 130, 134, 136, 139 



Pigs, statement on, 92 



Pleuro-pneumonia, period of incubation of, . . 17 



Pleuro-pneumonia, report of commissioners on, 6, 9, 12, 18, 22 



Plymouth County, agricultural survey of, 271, 275, 280, 285 



Plymouth County, principal crops raised in, 280 



Plymouth County, swine and sheep in, 279 



Plymouth County, thoroughbred stock in 274,275,278 



Political economy of agriculture, lecture on, 187, 189, 192, 196 



Preservation of seeds, 254, 256 



Profits of grape culture, 164, 165, 169 



Raising and preservation of seeds, report on, 246, 247, 250, 254 



Relative value of milk, report on, 230, 232 



Robin, agricultural value of the, 102, 105, 110, 112 



Saltonstall, L., report by 211, 215 



Samuels, E. A., lecture by 94, 99, 104, 111, 117 



Seeds, plants propagated by, 247, 250, 252 



Seeds, raising and preservation of, 246, 247, 250, 254 



Sheep, care of, 121, 124, 126 



Sheep, effects of on lands, 119, 120 



Sheep husbandry, X18, 122, 125, 126, 129 



Sheep in Plymouth County, 279 



Sheep raising, report on, 118, 120 



Sheep, varieties of best adapted to particular purposes, 120 



Smith, J. M., report by, . ' 306, 310 



State Cabinet, additions to, . 331, 333 



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