SYNOPSIS. 71 



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

 tuities. 

 Index. 



Part II., 267 pages. 



Officers of societies. Exhibitions for 1863. 



Addresses to the societies : the relations of agriculture to man, by George J. 

 L. Colby ; agriculture as a national industry, by Dr. George B. Loring ; 

 the productiveness of the earth, by A. N. Arnold ; advantages of rural 

 pursuits, by Benjamin F. Thomas ; agricultural hall, Barnstable, by 

 George Marston. 



Beports of committees : farms, waste lands, manures, trees and shrubs, 

 fruit culture, grain crops, root crops and vegetables, milch cows, 

 horses, sheep, swine, the dairy, farm buildings (illustrated). 



Essay on successful agriculture, by Jabez Fisher. 



Index. 



Eleventh Report, 1863. 623 pages. 

 Part I., 368 pages. 



Roster Board of Agriculture. 



Introduction by Secretary Flint ; report of commissioners on contagious 

 diseases among cattle, pleuro-pneumonia, communication to Governor 

 Andrew. 



Public winter meeting of Board at Springfield : lecture on agricultural edu- 

 cation, by Dr. George B. Loring ; discussion on soils and agricultural 

 resources of Massachusetts ; lecture on the application of manures, by 

 Prof. S. W. Johnson ; discussion on grape culture ; discussion on farm 

 crops ; discussion on cattle breeding ; discussion on sheep husbandry. 



Annual meeting : reports of committees : the establishment of a New 

 England agricultural society ; resolutions concerning Agricultural 

 College ; profit of growing meat ; preparation of lands for crops ; 

 application of manures ; the library ; culture of the cranberry, soil, 

 drainage and water, insects, profits. 



The State cabinet ; report on the International Exhibition at Hamburg and 

 the agricultural schools in Europe, by Chas. L. Flint ; management of 

 the flax crop ; experiments at Bothamsted. 



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

 Middlesex, Middlesex North, Middlesex South, Worcester ( "ouiity West, 

 Worcester North, Worcester South-east, Hampshire, Franklin and 

 Hampden, Highland, Eastern Hampden, Franklin County, Ilousatonic, 

 Hoosac Valley, Bristol County, Plymouth County, Nantucket, Martha's 

 Vineyard. 



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

 tuities ; ornithology of Massachusetts, list of species, by E. A. Samuels. 



Index. 



Part II., 255 pages. 



Preface. Officers of societies. Exhibitions for 1864. 



Addresses to the societies: elements of suet-ess in farming, by Daniel 



Saunders, Jr. ; the model productive State, by Alexander II. Bullock; 



New England farming, by Luther 11. Tucker; the tanner's life, by 



