54 AGRICULTURE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



agricultural capacities of Berkshire, exclusive husbandly, domestic 

 economy, increase of cultivation and products, comparative value of 

 hay, vegetables and corn, apples, raising live stock, compost and liquid 

 manures ; machinery, drill-barrow, threshing-machine, smoke-house, 

 water-works ; conclusion. 



Appendix : meteorological tables ; raising calves ; cheese shelves ; letters 

 on ashes, lime, etc. ; feed for swine ; experiment with different steeps 

 for seed wheat ; the grain worm ; artificial manure, the urine cistern ; 

 agricultural statistics, returns of Bernardston, Franklin County, Marl- 

 borough, Middlesex County, Barre, "Worcester County ; grasses of 

 Berkshire County ; reports of valuation committee in 1831, Berkshire 

 County. 



Index. Errata. 



Third Report, 1839. 252 pages. 



Introduction: letter of transmittal to president of Senate ; Senate order; 

 agricultural report ; wheat returns of counties, Berkshire, Franklin, 

 Hampshire, Hampden, Worcester, Middlesex, Essex, Norfolk, Bristol, 

 Plymouth, Barnstable, Dukes, Nantucket, Suffolk. 



Report on culture of wheat in Massachusetts : causes of failure, rust, mil- 

 • dew, smut, wire worm, Hessian fly, grain insect ; soils for ; varieties 

 of; manures for, lime, Berkshire marls, ashes, green crops for manure, 

 rotation of crops ; selection of seed ; quantity of seed to an acre ; depth 

 of sowing ; ploughing for ; cleanness of cultivation ; draining ; deep 

 cultivation ; recent English improvements ; agricultural improvements. 



Report on culture of silk : history of silk culture in United States ; patron- 

 age of State ; mulberry trees, black, white, Broussa, Alpine, Perottet, 

 Moras Expansa or Roman, Canton, Sharpe's ; mode of managing and 

 cultivating improved varieties ; mulberries from seed ; silk to an acre 

 and cost of production ; product of an acre ; leaves to pound ; varie- 

 ties of worm ; cocoons for pound of silk ; natural and artificial man- 

 agement ; provision for winding cocoons ; improved cocooneries ; 

 mode of delaying hatching of eggs ; destruction of moth ; reeling 

 and reels ; domestic industry ; manufacture of silk ; raw silk ; calcu- 

 lations respecting silk products ; manufactures in England ; our own 

 condition ; production of silk in Massachusetts , labor applicable to 

 silk culture ; silk culture for the clergy, for pauper establishments, for 

 the Shakers, for schools ; conclusion. 



Appendix: annual imports of bread stuffs ; sowing wheat in drills or 

 broadcast; cultivation of wheat; manures for wheat; ploughing in 

 crops for manure ; experiment in forwarding seeds ; analysis of dif- 

 ferent varieties of wheat ; using the best seed ; quantity of seed to 

 acre ; food of plants ; chemical phenomena in germination and vege- 

 tation ; draining and subsoil ploughing ; redemption of bog meadow ; 

 act for encouragement of culture of silk ; mulberry, Sharpens variety ; 

 letters by C. Haskell concerning production of silk in household way ; 

 letter of James Deane, M.U. ; Deane's silk reel ; experiment of J. 

 V. McLean ; the silk worm, a synoptical table, showing rearing accord- 



