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Appendix : returns of societies, finances, analysis of premiums and gra- 

 tuities : inventory of personal property, stock, crops, tools, etc., cash 

 account of treasurer, State Farm at Westborough ; meteorological 

 observations, by John Brooks of Princeton. 



Index. 



Part II., 440 pages. 



Preface. Officers of societies. Exhibitions for 1856. 



Reports of committees : farms, reclaimed meadows, improvement of waste 

 lands, orchards, ornamental trees, forest trees, hedges, ploughing, sub- 

 soil ploughing, spading, manures, Indian corn, broom-corn, wheat, r} - e, 

 oats, root crops, cranberries, essay on the cranberry and its culture, by 

 Rev. B. Eastwood, farm implements, neat stock, horses, swine, poultry, 

 products of the dairy, fruits and flowers, vegetables, domestic manu- 

 factures. 



Addresses to the societies : chemistry and farming, by Dr. James R. Nichols ; 

 the condition of agriculture, by Tappan Wentworth ; farming in 

 New England, by William Brigham ; the farmer's wants, by Amasa 

 Walker ; the farmer's errors, by Solon Robinson ; the future of agri- 

 culture, by Chas. L. Flint ; practical suggestions on farming, by Chas. 

 L. Flint ; relations of the East and West, by George S. Boutwell ; the 

 farmer, by Julius Rockwell ; chemistry of agriculture, by George E. 

 Waring, Jr. ; agricultural societies, by Rev. J. M. Merrick. 



Index. 



Fourth Report, 1856. 829 pages. 

 Part I., 351 pages. 



Roster Board of Agriculture. 



Introduction by Secretary Flint ; agricultural museum ; operations at State 

 Farm ; grasses, descriptions and illustrations, nutritive value, tables of 

 analyses, influence of seasons, time for sowing grass seed, selection of 

 seed, mixtures of seed, time to cut grass for hay, mowing machines, 

 height of cutting grass, curing of hay, horse rake, hay caps, fall feed- 

 ing, general treatment of grass lands, top dressing ; reports of com- 

 mittees on State Farm, labor, stock, improvements, crops and fertilizers ; 

 report on trials of speed of horses, resolutions of Board relative thereto. 



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

 Middlesex, Middlesex North, AVorcester, Worcester South, Hampshire, 

 Franklin and Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin County, Berkshire, Ilousa- 

 tonic, Norfolk Comity, Bristol County, Plymouth Comity. 



Experiments on town farms, circular, reply from overseers of poor of Prince- 

 ton, remarks. 



Appendix : returns of societies, finances, analysis of premiums and gra- 

 tuities ; inventor}' of stock, crops, tools, etc., cash account of treasurer, 

 State Farm at Westborough ; index of systematic names of grasses. 



Index. 



Part II., 478 pages. 



Preface. Officers of societies. Exhibitions for 1857. 



Addresses to the societies : early farming of Essex ( 'ounty, by Ben : Perlev 



