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provernents, milch cows, ploughing, the dairy, fruits and vegetables, 

 supervisor's report ; Bristol County, breeding stock, ploughing, honey, 

 ornamental trees, fancy articles, grain crops ; Barnstable County, farms, 

 etc., produce, grapes and cranberries, fruit trees, milch cows ; abstract 

 of premiums. 

 Addresses to the societies : agricultural improvements, by Asa T. Newhall ; 

 the privileges and duties of farmers, by Lilly Eaton ; the application 

 of science to farming, by W. C. Goldthwait ; the necessity for the 

 improvement of the soil, and the means of effecting it, by Prof. John 

 P. Norton ; fruit culture, by Geo. S. Willis ; agriculture to be advanced 

 by science and agricultural education, by Marshall P. Wilder ; some 

 of the defects of farmers, and the means of remedying them, by Increase 

 S. Smith ; practical hints on farming, by Win. Buckminster. 



1850. 476 pages. 



Introduction by Secretary Amasa Walker ; schedule of produce of dairies 

 for Worcester Society fair ; Board of Agriculture. 



Abstract from returns of societies : Massachusetts, stock ; Essex, milch 

 cows, heifers, fat cattle, the dairy, bees and honey, poultry, domestic 

 manufactures, agricultural implements, horticulture, fruit, culture of 

 the cranberry, fruit trees, farms, reclaimed meadows, grain and root 

 crops, essay on top dressings for mowing and pasture lands, by Chas. 

 L. Flint, essay on rearing turkeys, by Allen W. Dodge, essay on farm 

 accounts, farm dairies and agricultural registers, by Ben : Perley 

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

 cows, heifers, bulls, bread, butter, agricultural implements ; Worcester, 

 ploughing match, steers, fat cattle, heifers, milch cows, poultry, butter, 

 agricultural implements, farms, root crops ; Hampshire, Franklin and 

 Hampden, mechanic arts, stock, horses, ploughing, poultry, vegetables, 

 fruit ; Hampden, milch cows, working oxen, farm horses, poultry, farm 

 implements, fruit, bread, butter, director's report, grain and root crops, 

 compost manure, apple orchard ; Franklin County, horses, fruit, grain 

 and root crops ; Berkshire, agricultural products, agricultural imple- 

 ments, the dairy ; Housatonic, agricultural products, ploughing, milch 

 cows and heifers ; Norfolk County, farms, grain crops, improving 

 meadow and swamp land, milch cows, working oxen, fat cattle, swine, 

 poultrj^, the dairy, fruits and flowers, bread, agricultural implements, 

 agricultural laborers, suggestions to trustees by president; Plymouth 

 County, improvements, supervisor's report; Bristol County, ploughing, 

 working oxen, grain crops, fruit trees ; Barnstable County, farms, 

 grain crop, fruit and forest trees, fruit ; abstract of premiums. 



Addresses to the societies: the relation of land to the prosperity and hap- 

 piness of the United States, by Caleb dishing ; the pleasures and the 

 profits of farming, and the folly of quitting it, by George S. Boutwell ; 

 some of the means of making the soil more productive, by Rev. H. 

 Tracy; the necessity of science to advance agriculture, by Dr. Daniel 

 Lee; agricultural progress in Massachusetts for the last half century, 

 by Chas. T. Russell ; good husbandry and the incentives to it, by J. T. 



