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extirpation of disease among cattle called pleuro-pneumonia ; laws 

 concerning contagions diseases among cattle ; report of board of 

 medical examiners, morbid anatomy, history and pathology, herds 

 affected, contagion, incubation, propagation, symptoms, treatment, 

 average fatality, prevention. 



Reports of committees : to advise with and assist commissioners for extir- 

 pation of pleuro-pneumonia ; sheep husbandry, statistics, breeds, 

 cross breeding, summer and winter treatment, diseases ; diseases of 

 vegetation ; root crops ; horses, roadster, draught horse, use and 

 breeding, breeds, rules for horse breeders, stable, food, grooming, 

 training, shoeing, education, soundness, age, diseases, statistics, ass, 

 mule ; flowage of low lands, compulsory out-falls, land drainage 

 companies ; weight of crops entered for premium. 



The State cabinet. Harris's " Treatise on insects injurious to vegetation." 



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

 Middlesex, Middlesex North, Middlesex South, Worcester, Worcester 

 County West, Worcester North, Worcester South, Worcester South- 

 east, Hampshire, Highland, Eastern Hampden, Franklin County, Berk- 

 shire, Housatonic, Hoosac Valley, Norfolk County, Plymouth County, 

 Barnstable Count}', Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard. 



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

 tuities. 



Part II., 242 pages. 



Officers of societies. 



Addresses to the societies : agriculture an art, by John L. Russell ; suc- 

 cession of forest trees, by Henry D. Thoreau ; the stock on our farms, 

 by Dr. George B. Loring ; why a Massachusetts farmer should be 

 content, by George S. Hillard. 



Reports of committees : farms, reclaimed meadows, improving pasture and 

 waste lands, orchards, ploughing, manures, Indian corn, wheat, rye, 

 barley, oats, broom-corn, root crops, comparative value of crops as 

 food for cattle, neat cattle, horses, sheep, poultry, the dairy, bee culture. 



Indexes. Errata. 



Ninth Report, 1861. 597 pages. 

 Part I., 286 pages. 



Roster Board of Agriculture. 



Introduction by Secretary Flint. 



Reports of committees : diseases of vegetation ; cattle breeding and 

 feeding (illustrated), breeding the female for the dairy and for beef, 

 the bull, pure blood, New England cattle for mixed purposes, methods 

 of rearing, animal structure, cost and quantity of food, soiling, steam- 

 ing, amount of food furnished by various crops, selection and compari- 

 son of breeds ; protection of sheep, lambs, etc., number of dogs, tax 

 paid; wastes of the farm ; wheat culture ; pleuro-pneumonia. 



The State cabinet; animals of Massachusetts (illustrated), catalogue of 

 animals extinct in this State, additions to cabinet, by E. A. Samuels ; 

 Harris's " Insects injurious to vegetation ; " " Manual of agriculture ; " 

 agricultural statistics. 



