60 AGRICULTURE OP MASSACHUSETTS. 



Buckingham ; the harmony of labor, by A. H. Bullock ; what can be 

 done for the farming of Norfolk County ? by Charles Francis Adams ; 

 the application of chemistry to agriculture, by Chas. T. Jackson, M.D. 

 Index. 



1851. 692 pages. 



Introduction by Secretary Amasa Walker ; contents. 



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

 cows, bulls, working oxen, breeding mares, poultry, dairy and vege- 

 table products, cranberries, root and grain crops, experiments on 

 manures, improving pasture lands, reclaimed meadow lands, farms, 

 grape culture, bees and honey, communication on Michigan sod plough ; 

 Middlesex, farms, etc., reclaimed meadows, apple orchards, milch cows, 

 heifers, butter, bread, agricultural experiments ; Worcester, ploughing 

 match, bulls, working oxen, steers, milch cows, heifers, fat cattle, poul- 

 try, agricultural implements, cheese, wheat and brome grass, compost 

 manures, root crops ; Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden, ploughing 

 match, stock, horses, poultry, bread, butter and cheese, fruits and vege- 

 tables, domestic manufactures, reclaimed meadows, grain and root 

 crops, orchards ; Hampden, fat cattle, working oxen, milch cows, 

 breeding mares and colts, swine, poultry, butter, vegetables, fruit, 

 director's report, rye crop, oat crop, corn crop, carrot crop, turnip crop, 

 reclaimed meadows, fruit trees, apple orchard, pear trees, peach or- 

 chard ; Franklin County, ploughing match, town teams, cows, cheese, 

 grain and root crops, hay crop ; Hampshire, subsoil ploughing and com- 

 post manures, reclaimed meadows, ploughing, farms, fruit trees, milch 

 cows, steers, fat cattle, butter and cheese ; Berkshire, agricultural prod- 

 ucts, ploughing match, milch cows, sheep, fruit, household manufac- 

 tures ; Housatonic, agricultural products, agricultural implements, 

 ploughing match ; Norfolk County, farms, reclaimed meadows, peach 

 orchards, ploughing, fat cattle, milch cows, swine, poultry, dairy prod- 

 ucts, bread, bees and honey, grain and root crops, agricultural imple- 

 ments ; Plymouth County, improvements, supervisor's report, dairy 

 articles ; Bristol County, ploughing with ox teams, ploughing with 

 horses and steers, sheep and swine, cows and heifers, fat cattle, steers 

 and horses, ornamental and forest trees, grain crops ; Barnstable 

 County, farms, grain and root crops, cranberries, compost manures : 

 Worcester County A\ r est, cattle show ; abstract of premiums. 



Massachusetts Board of Agriculture : associated agricultural convention ; 

 preamble and resolutions, with discussions ; first meeting ; second meet- 

 ing ; constitution and by-laws ; resolutions on death of George Denny 

 of Westborough ; report on agricultural education ; report of dele- 

 gates, exhibition of Essex Society, Middlesex, Worcester, Worcester 

 County West, Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden, Hampden, Frank- 

 lin County, Hampshire, Berkshire, Housatonic, Norfolk County, Ply- 

 mouth County, Bristol County, Barnstable County ; third meeting, 

 discussion on agricultural education, with memorial to Legislature ; 

 reports of committees, ploughing, milch cows and dairy products, 

 neat cattle, farms and improvement of lands, cultivation and measure- 



