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ment of crops, average cost of grain and root crops in Hampden 

 County, agricultural implements, manufactures. 



Addresses to the societies : some of the obstacles which have impeded the 

 progress of agriculture, aud the mode in which its improvement can 

 specially be promoted, by Rev. Milton P. Braman ; agricultural econ- 

 omy and agricultural ethics, bj* J. S. C. Knowlton ; the advantages of 

 science in its application to agriculture, by Prof. John P. Norton ; the 

 importance of agriculture and the means and motives for its promotion, 

 by Marshall P. Wilder ; agricultural education, by Marshall P. Wilder ; 

 the progress of agriculture, and the necessity for its further progress, by 

 George R. Russell, LL.D. ; the mechanical properties of the soil, and 

 the consolidation and protection of manures, by Jas. E. Teschemacher. 



Report on the potato rot ; report of joint standing committee of Legislature, 

 synopsis of several communications ou cause and cure received by 

 executive of Massachusetts, advertisement, communications from citi- 

 zens of Massachusetts, foreign commimications. 



1852. 798 pages. 



Introduction by Secretary Amasa Walker ; roster Board of Agriculture ; 

 contents ; agricultural exhibitions for 1853. 



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

 sheep, swine, stallions, mares, colts, working oxen, steers, fat cattle, 

 bulls, heifers, milch cows, ploughing with single, double and horse 

 teams, the dairy, agricultural implements, root and grain crops, fruits, 

 introduction of new fruits, vegetables, farms, fattening cattle and swine, 

 manures, flowers, prize essay on sheep husbandry, by David Choate ; 

 Middlesex, farms, etc., orchards, pear orchards, reclaimed meadows, 

 apples and pears, butter, horses, bulls and bull calves, heifers, milch 

 cows, ploughing with double, single and horse teams, fat cattle ; 

 Worcester, ploughing match, working oxen, fat cattle, sheep, swine, 

 steers, heifers, milch cows, poultry, cheese, butter, bulls, farms, 

 meadow, swamp and uplands, root crops, feeding ; Worcester County 

 AVest, horses, mares and colts, ploughing, working oxen, bulls, dairy 

 cows, heifers, steers and calves, fat oxen, town teams, sheep, swine, 

 poultry, butter, cheese, root and grain crops, ploughs, fruits, farms ; 

 Hampshire, Franklin aud Hampden, farms, ploughing, horses, manures, 

 carrot crop, rye crop, corn crop, stock, poultry, bread, butter and cheese ; 

 Hampden, grain crops, turnip crop, milch cows; Franklin County, 

 ploughing, grain and root crops, sheep, fat cattle, town teams, fowls, 

 butter, bread, fruit ; Hampshire, farms, reclaimed meadow lands, grain 

 and root crops, butter, fruit trees, swine, compost manures ; Berkshire, 

 ploughing, grain and root crops, orchards, wheat, butter and cheese, 

 fruits, etc., milch cows, horses, sheep, agricultural and mechanical 

 implements; Housatonic, agricultural products, ploughing, oxen and 

 steers, milch cows, heifers and calves, swine aud poultry, sheep, horses, 

 grass seed; Norfolk County, farms, ploughing, spading, agricultural 

 implements, sheep, cows, bulls, heifers, steers, horses, working oxen, 

 swine, poultry, bread, butter, roots and root culture, fruits and flowers, 



