SYNOPSIS OF EACH VOLUME 



REPORTS OF REV. HENRY COLMAN. 



First Report, 1837. 139 pages. 



Introduction: letter of transmittal to His Excellency Edward Everett; 

 extracts from statement of Commissioner for Agricultural Survey to 

 committee on agriculture of House of Representatives. 



Report on agriculture of county of Essex : general description ; crops, 

 grasses, salt hay, Indian corn, wheat, rye, barley, oats, buckwheat, 

 potatoes, onions; the dairy; sheep husbandry; beef; swine; neat 

 cattle ; manures ; fruit trees ; forest trees ; fences ; farm buildings ; 

 farming implements ; weeds ; bees ; miscellaneous, sunflower for oil, 

 beet sugar, silk culture, milkweed, manufactures, keep of oxen, slaugh- 

 ter-house offal ; improvements ; farm reports ; agricultural schools ; 

 agricultural society. 



Appendix : instructions of executive to commissioner ; circular to farmers 

 on subject of agricultural survey of State by authority of Legislature ; 

 farm report ; extracts from letters ; cultivation of rye, John Keely's 

 statement ; cultivation of the larch ; stone buildings ; weeds and 

 thorns ; bees ; diking salt marsh ; lime ; Smith's subsoil plough ; 

 rack heath plough ; reports of valuation committee in 1831. 



Index. Errata. 



Second Report, 1838. 194 pages. 



Introduction : letter of transmittal to His Excellency Edward Everett. 



Report on agriculture of county of Berkshire : general description ; boun- 

 daries and situation ; division of territory ; general features and aspect ; 

 soils ; markets and manufactures ; climate ; crops, amount of, rotation, 

 expenses and profits of, teasels, flax ; dairy husbandry, produce and 

 expenses; dairy 7 stock ; amount of dairy produce ; neat cattle, extraor- 

 dinary cows, improvement at Ten Hills stock farm, cream pot breed, 

 dairy and soiling in Waltham, Middlesex County, raising calves, quality 

 and management of dairy produce ; swine; manures; farm buildings; 

 Shakers 1 establishments ; experiments and improvements, potatoes, car- 

 rots, rutabaga, oats, Avheat, wire worm, grain insect, grain worm, locust 

 borer; reports of farms ; agricultural statistics; agricultural society ; 

 miscellaneous, manufacture of charcoal, marble quarries, natural 

 scenery, the Giant's Staircase ; desirable agricultural improvements, 



