56 AGRICULTURE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



ABSTRACTS FROM RETURNS OF SOCIETIES. 



1845. 214 pages. 



Introduction by Secretary John G. Palfrey ; list of agricultural societies ; 

 resolve for an agricultural survey of State ; laws in iorce relating to 

 agricultural corporations ; objects of law requiring returns from socie- 

 ties. 



Abstract from returns of societies : Massachusetts, improvement of stock ; 

 Essex, ploughing with double teams, with single teams, subsoil, work- 

 ing oxen, the dairy, meadow and swamp land, farms, fruit trees, live 

 fences, vegetables, experiments on manures, domestic manufactures ; 

 Middlesex, cattle show, farms, etc. ; Worcester, ploughing match, fat 

 cattle, working oxen, bulls, milch cows, butter, root crops, mechanic's 

 tools and agricultural implements ; Hampshire, Franklin and Hamp- 

 den, domestic manufactures, ploughing, stock, horses ; Hampden, milch 

 cows, fruits and vegetables, mechanical productions ; Berkshire, agri- 

 cultural products, herds-grass seed, ploughing match ; Ptymouth 

 County, improvements, supervisors report, ploughing match ; Bristol 

 County, fruit and vegetables, manufactures, ploughing match ; Barn- 

 stable County, farms ; abstract of premiums. 



Appendix : addresses to the societies : intellectual and physical culture as 

 connected with agriculture, by Rev. E. M. Stone ; the profits of agri- 

 culture, by Asahel Foot, Jr. ; the mutual dependence between agricult- 

 ure and other pursuits, by Rev. Edward Hitchcock. 



Description of stock recently imported by Massachusetts Society for Pro- 

 moting Agriculture, with pedigree, by E. Phinney, Esq. 



1846. 175 pages. 



Introduction by Secretary John G. Palfrey ; act relating to agricultural 

 societies ; suggestions concerning returns from societies. 



Abstract from returns of societies : Massachusetts, report of examining 

 committee to examine cattle imported by society, anatomy and dis- 

 eases of animals, introduction of a new grass, extracts from Mr. 

 Phinney's monthly reports ; Essex, ploughing with double teams, 

 milch cows and heifers, swine, meadow and swamp land, turning in 

 crops as a manure, uses of salt in cultivation, grain crops, fruit trees, 

 fruits ; Middlesex, farms, etc., reclaimed meadows, orchards, milch 

 cows, agricultural experiments ; Worcester, ploughing match, fat cat- 

 tle, milch cows, poultry, butter, cheese, mechanic's tools and agricultural 

 implements, i-oot crops, feeding experiments with cut and uncut hay ; 

 Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden, domestic manufactures, butter and 

 cheese, stock, ploughing, fruits and vegetables ; Hampden, ploughing 

 match, working oxen, .milch cows, fruits and flowers, reclaimed SAvamp 

 land, reclaiming waste land ; Berkshire, agricultural products, sheep, 



