64 AGRICULTURE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



England, droughts, harvest of 1854, forests, drainage, irrigation, evap- 

 oration, change of climate ; exj)eriments with guano ; muck ; culture 

 of the hop ; exhibitions and condition of societies. 



Reports of delegates appointed to visit exhibitions of societies : Essex, 

 Middlesex South, Worcester, "Worcester County West, Hampden, Berk- 

 shire, Bristol County, Barnstable County. 



Communication on forest trees, by John C. Gray. 



Appendix : schedule and appraisal of stock, estimates, inventory, etc., State 

 farm at Westborough ; returns of societies, finances, analysis of pre- 

 miums and gratuities. 



Index. 



Part II., 520 pages. 



Preface. Officers of societies. 



Reports of committees : farms, reclaimed meadows, under-drainage, pasture 

 lands, orchards, forest trees, hedges, deep tillage, ploughing, spading, 

 manures, Indian corn, broom-corn, wheat, rye, barley, oats, grass seed, 

 beans, mixed crops, root crops, cranberries, farm implements, farm 

 buildings, stock, bulls, milch cows, working oxen, fat cattle, horses, 

 sheep, swine, feeding stock, poultry, bees, products of the dairy, fruits, 

 vegetables. 



Prize essay on the economy of agriculture, by L. Wetherell. 



Addresses to the societies : the use of manures, by Richard S. Fay ; rewards 

 of agriculture, by Rev. Geo. E. Ellis; the position of agriculture, by 

 I. II. Wright ; the Massachusetts farmer, by Emory Washburn ; the 

 economy of scientific agriculture, by Rev. W. Clift ; British and Amei- 

 ican agriculture, by Prof. John A. Nash ; the demands of agriculture, 

 by Increase Sumner ; the wastes of agriculture, by Geo. S. Boutwell ; 

 saving of manures, by Rev. Jas. Richardson ; American agriculture, 

 by J. W. Miller ; high farming, by R. Morris Copeland. 



Index. 



Third Report, 1855. 629 pages. 

 Part I., 189 pages. 



Roster Board of Agriculture. 



Introduction by Secretary Flint; management of State farm at Westbor- 

 ough ; special agreement of committee of Board of Agriculture and 

 committee of trustees of State Reform School ; reports of committees 

 on State farm, stock, labor, general improvements, crops, fertilizers, 

 etc. ; experiments in agriculture ; importance of accurate meteorological 

 observations, and plan by Lieutenant Maury ; relative to experimental 

 farms ; resolutions on death of Dr. T. W. Harris ; farm implements, 

 plough, harrow, horse hoe, seed sower, corn planter, mowing machine, 

 horse rake, reaper, thresher ; agricultural museum. 



Reports of delegates appointed to visit exhibitions of societies: Essex, 

 Middlesex, Middlesex South, Middlesex North, Worcester, Worcester 

 North, Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden, Hampshire, Berkshire, 

 Ilousatonic, Norfolk County, Plymouth County, Barnstable County. 



Agricultural statistics for 1855. 



