72 AGRICULTURE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



Joseph Vaill ; most profitable farm stock, by Sanford Howard ; the 



farmer and the Commonwealth, by S. P. Twiss ; the farmer, by Rev. 



George Putnam, D.D. 

 Reports of committees : farms, manures, fruits, grain and root crops, flax, 



blood stock, milch cows, raising calves, horses, sheep, the dairy, bee 



culture. 

 Essays : on farm accounts, by J. H. Bourne ; on plan of a barn, by Joseph 



Hayward. 

 Index. 



Twelfth Report, 1864. 491 pages. 

 Part I., 316 pages. 



Roster Board of Agriculture. 



Introduction by Secretary Flint ; report of commissioners on contagious 

 diseases among cattle, minority report. 



Public winter meeting of Board at Greenfield : opening address, by Dr. 

 George B. Loring ; remarks on agricultural education, by His Excellency 

 John A. Andrew ; discussion on the corn crop ; lecture on grape cult- 

 ure, by E. W. Bull ; discussion on improvement of pasture lands ; 

 address on soils, by Prof. William B. Rogers ; discussion on cattle 

 husbandly ; lecture on habits of insects in their relations to man, by 

 F. G. Sanborn ; discussion on sheep husbandry ; lecture on origin of 

 agricultural soils, by Prof. Louis Agassiz. 



Annual meeting : reports of committees : garden vegetables and root 

 crops, onions, cabbage, squash ; cultivation of the pitch j^ine on the sea 

 coast ; farm buildings, the New England farm-house, foundation, 

 architecture, general principles, water, barns ; fruit culture ; adipo- 

 cere ; Agricultural College ; the Percheron horse ; grape culture, soil, 

 planting, cost of vineyards, errors in propagation. 



The State cabinet and agricultural library ; the Agricultural College ; New 

 England Agricultural Society. 



Appendix : 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, Franklin and Hampden, Franklin County, East- 

 ern Hampden, Berkshire, Housatonic, Hoosac Valley, Norfolk County, 

 Bristol County, Barnstable County, Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard. 



Returns of societies ; finances, analysis of premiums and gratuities. 



Index. 



Part II., 175 pages. 



Preface. Officers of societies. Exhibitions for 1865. 



Addresses to the societies : agriculture and the industrial arts, by Darwin 



E. AVare ; the interests of agriculture, by John A. Goodwin ; the soil 



of New England, by George F. Works ; the education of the ox, by A. 



B. Davis ; distribution of neat cattle in United States, by C. L. Flint. 

 Reports of committees : farms, manures, vineyards, grain crops, roots and 



vegetables, milch cows, horses, sheep husbandry, poultry, fruits, bread. 

 Index. 



