58 AGRICULTURE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



the dairy, fattening cattle and swine, comparative value of crops, etc., 

 grain and root crops, forest trees, essay on destroying weeds, by 

 Andrew Nichols, essay on the improvement of wet meadows and swamp 

 lands, by Temple Cutler, essay on the establishment of agricultural 

 libraries by agricultural societies, by Allen W. Dodge ; Plymouth 

 County, supervisor's report, compost manure, oats, Indian corn, tur- 

 nips, beets, wheat, ploughing with single ox teams, the dairy ; Bristol 

 County, ploughing, Avorking oxen and steers, breeding stock, grain and 

 vegetable crops, domestic manufactures ; Hampden, reclaimed swamps, 

 grain and root crops ; Barnstable County, improved wet meadows, 

 produce, cranberries ; abstract of premiums. 



Addresses to the societies : how to make farming profitable, by Josiah 

 Newhall ; the difficulties and obstacles to be encountered in agricult- 

 ure, by John C. Gray ; the progress of industry, and the harmony of 

 labor, by A. H. Bullock ; intellectual labor essential to success in agri- 

 culture, by Win. H. "Wood ; the structure, the physical properties, and 

 the chemical composition of the soil, by Prof. John P. Norton. 



Bemarks : by J. E. Teschemacher at several meetings of the Legislative 

 Agricultural Society ; by Marshall P. Wilder, at ninth and tenth meet- 

 ings of the Legislative Agricultural Society, on fruit and fruit trees. 



Index. 



1849. 428 pages. 



Introduction by Secretary William B. Calhoun. 



Abstract from returns of societies : Massachusetts, stock ; Essex, the daiiy, 

 ploughing, Bartlett's double plough, farms, grain and root crops, 

 experiment on cultivation of potatoes, experiments on manures, com- 

 parative value of crops as food for cattle, fruit trees, fruits, flowers, 

 domestic manufactures, milch cows, heifers, bulls, fattening cattle and 

 swine, colts, poultry, essay on the history and importance of Indian corn 

 as an agricultural product, by Chas. L. Flint, essay on the cidtivation 

 of Indian corn, by Wm. R. Putnam ; Middlesex, farms, etc., reclaimed 

 meadows, fruit trees, cranberries, milch cows, butter, agricultural ex- 

 periments, inventions ; Worcester, ploughing match, fat cattle, milch 

 cows, bulls, poultry, butter, root crops, essay on the means to be used 

 to create a deeper interest in the cause of agriculture, by T. D. P. Stone ; 

 Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden, domestic manufactures, milch cows 

 and steers, horses, ploughing, ploughs, experiments on manures, turn- 

 ing in green crops, reclaimed meadow, poultry ; Hampden, farms, 

 reclaimed swamps, grain and root crops, apple orchards, reclaimed 

 waste land, sheep, milch cows ; Berkshire, agricultural products, work- 

 ing oxen and steers, cows and heifers, sheep, fruits and vegetables, 

 agricultural implements, ploughing match ; Housatonic, agricultural 

 productions, working oxen, milch cows and heifers, ploughing ; Nor- 

 folk County, ploughing match, farms, ploughing, grain and root crops, 

 milch cows and heifers, the dairy, working oxen, poultry, implements, 

 fruits and flowers, domestic manufactures, remarks on the agriculture 

 and manufactures of Norfolk County, tables illustrating the agriculture 

 and manufactures of Norfolk County in 1845 ; Plymouth County, im- 



