70 AGRICULTURE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



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

 Middlesex North, Middlesex South, Worcester, Worcester County West, 

 Worcester North, Worcester South, Worcester South-east, Hampshire, 

 Franklin and Hampden, Hampshire, Highland, Hampden, Eastern 

 Hampden, Franklin County, Berkshire, Housatonic, Hoosac Valley, 

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

 Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard. 



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

 tuities. 



Index. 



Part II., 311 pages. 



Officers of societies. 



Addresses to the societies : education of farmers 1 sons, by Alfred A. Abbott ; 

 influence of agriculture, tenure of lands, by Emory Washburn ; agri- 

 culture and war, by Dr. George B. Loring ; the farmer's calling, by J. N. 

 Dunham ; utility of birds, by Wilson Flagg ; on the cultivation of cran- 

 berries, by Nathan Page, Jr. ; preservation of apjfles and other winter 

 fruits, by Austin J. Roberts. 



Reports of committees : farms, pasture and waste lands, culture of trees, 

 vineyards, manures, muck and its uses, Indian corn, small grains, 

 stock, feeding of stock, sheep, fruits, apple trees and apples, wine- 

 making, bread. 



Agricultural statistics for 1860. 



Index. 



Tenth Report, 1862. 691 pages. 

 Part I., 424 pages. 



Roster Board of Agriculture. 



Introduction by Secretary Flint ; report of commissioners on contagious dis- 

 eases among cattle, report of committee to prepare address to farmers 

 upon existence of pleuro-pneumonia, statement of board of commis- 

 sioners. 



Reports of committees : manures, results of experiments ; culture of 

 tobacco as an agricultural product ; fruit culture, catalogue of fruits ; 

 cultivation of the grape in Massachusetts, soil, aspect, manures, prep- 

 aration of soil, planting, distance apart, pruning, propagation, raising 

 new varieties from seed, hybridizing or crop fertilization, profits ; 

 increasing efficiency of State Board of Agriculture. 



The sheep law, tables showing cities and towns, number dogs licensed, 

 amount received ; secretary appointed delegate to International Exhi- 

 bition at Hamburg ; paper on insects of Massachusetts which are bene- 

 ficial to agriculture (illustrated), by F. G. Sanborn; a trip to Europe, 

 by Chas. L. Flint. 



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

 Middlesex, Middlesex South, Worcester South-east, Hampshire, Frank- 

 lin and Hampden, Highland, Franklin County, Eastern Hampden, Berk- 

 shire, Housatonic, Norfolk County, Plymouth County, Barnstable 

 County, Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard. 



