62 AGRICULTURE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



grain crops, culture of wheat, peach orchards, clearing and enclosing 

 unimproved lands, suggestions to members by B. V. French, essay on 

 the soiling of cattle, by Josiah Qnincy, Sr., essay on the principles of 

 ploughing, by Sanford Howard, essay on the basket willow, by John 

 Flemin°\ Jr. ; Plymouth County, improvements, produce, forest trees, 

 compost manure, Indian corn, root crops, onions and winter squashes, 

 the dairy, horses and colts, stock, swine, ploughing, steers, working 

 oxen, beef cattle, essay on compost manures, by J. E. Howard ; Bristol 

 County, farm improvements, crops, butter, cheese, bread and honey, 

 fruits and flowers, ornamental and forest trees, domestic manufactures, 

 fat cattle, horses and steers, breeding stock, sheep and swine, poultry, 

 ploughing with oxen, ploughing with horses and steers, working cattle ; 

 Barnstable County, farms, grain crops, etc., sheep and swine ; abstract 

 of premiums. 



Addresses to the societies : the farmer must be educated, by Gen. II. K. 

 Oliver ; chemistry in its relations to agriculture, by L. V. Bell ; what 

 has been and is doing for the general advancement of agriculture, by 

 Prof. Jas. J. Mapes ; facts in relation to the germination and growth 

 of Indian corn, by John S. Gould ; an agricultural education the great 

 need of the American agriculturist, by W. S. King ; what government 

 ought to do for agriculture, by Robert C. Winthrop ; importance of 

 agriculture, by J. H. W. Page; intelligent agriculture, by Simon 

 Brown. 



Proceedings of State Board of Agriculture ; members ; duties of secretary ; 

 farmers' institutes ; reports of delegates, exhibition of Essex Society, 

 Middlesex, Worcester County West, Hampshire, Franklin and Hamp- 

 den, Hampden, Franklin County, Hampshire, Berkshire, Housatonic, 

 Norfolk County, Plymouth County, Bristol County, Barnstable County. 



Essays : orchards, by John C. Gray ; neat cattle, by Seth Sprague ; culture 

 of vegetables as farm products, by John W. Proctor ; subsoil plough- 

 ing and thorough draining, by B. V. French ; cows for dairy purposes, 

 how to be selected, and the most advantageous use to be made of their 

 milk, by Wm. Parkhurst ; Indian corn, value of the crop, and the best 

 mode of cultivating it, by J. R. Lawton ; education of the young farmer, 

 by Simon Brown ; best method of laying down land to grass, and con- 

 tinuing the product, by Francis Brewer ; farmers' clubs, by Stephen 

 Reed, M.D. 



Appendix : laws of Massachusetts ; agricultural corporations, returns from 

 agricultural societies, to exempt agricultural societies from taxation, to 

 establish a State Board of Agriculture, to regulate agricultural, horti- 

 cultural and ornamental tree associations. 



