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horses, ploughing match, domestic manufactures, butter, cheese, etc. ; 

 Plymouth County, improvements, fruits and vegetables, supervisors 

 report ; Bristol Comity, ploughing, stock, honey, fruits and vegetables, 

 manufactures ; Barnstable County, milch cows, forest trees ; abstract 

 of premiums. 

 Officers of societies for 1846-47. 



1847. 284 pages. 



Introduction by Secretary "William B. Calhoun. 



Abstract from returns of societies : Massachusetts, Mr. Phinney's report on 

 cattle owned by society ; Essex, milch cows and heifers, sheep, the 

 dairy, subsoil ploughing, turning in green crops as manure, grain and 

 root crops, cranberries, forest trees, essay on the cultivation of the onion, 

 by John TV. Proctor, essay on the cultivation of the cranberry, by David 

 Choate, essay on the cultivation of the oak and other forest trees, by G. 

 B. Perry, essay on the cultivation of the apple, by John M. Ives, essay 

 on the cultivation of the pear, by "W. D. Northern! ; Middlesex, farms, 

 etc., reclaimed meadows, compost manure, apple, peach and pear trees, 

 milch cows, carrot crop ; "Worcester, ploughing match, fat cattle, milch 

 cows, steers, poultry, agricultural implements, root crops ; Hampshire, 

 Franklin and Hampden, domestic manufactures, stock, horses, plough- 

 ing, fruits, vegetables and flowers, reclaimed waste and swamp land ; 

 Hampden, manures, fruits and flowers ; Berkshire, agricultural prod- 

 ucts, working oxen and steers, cows and heifers, ploughing match, 

 agricultural implements, butter, cheese, etc. ; Plymouth Comny, im- 

 provements, stock, ploughing match, supervisor's report ; Bristol County, 

 breeding stock, fruits, vegetable crops ; Barnstable Comity, farms, milch 

 cows, cranberries, domestic manufactures ; abstract of premiums. 



Addresses to the societies : improvements in agriculture, by T. E. Payson ; 

 the influence of science and capital, railroads and manufactures on 

 agriculture, by E. II. Derby ; fallacies in regard to labor, and drains 

 on labor, by David Ilenshaw ; the mind and the soil to be improved, 

 by J. B. Lawton ; the study of the natural sciences important to the 

 farmer, by Prof. John L. Russell ; the deficiency of scientific informa- 

 tion in the agricultural community, and the need of its being supplied, 

 by Prof. Chas. U. Shepard. 



Index. 



1848. 271 pages. 



Introduction by Secretary "William B. Calhoun. 



Abstract from returns of societies : Massachusetts, report of committee on 

 imported stock ; Middlesex, farms, etc., ploughing with double teams, 

 milch cows; Berkshire, agricultural products, stock, horses, agricult- 

 ural implements, ploughing, butter and cheese; Hampshire, Franklin 

 and Hampden, horses, ploughing, fruits and vegetables, poultry; 

 Worcester, ploughing match, fat cattle, Avorking oxen, milch cows, 

 bulls, heifers and steers, poultry, cheese, carrot crop ; Essex, hints for 

 consideration of trustees, farms, meadow and swamp land, milch cows, 



