74 AGRICULTURE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



Public winter meeting of Board at Salem : lecture on the connection of the 

 State Board of Agriculture with the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege, by Dr. George B. Loring ; discussion on agricultural education ; 

 remarks on varieties in plants, by Prof. P. A. Chadbourne and Prof. 

 Louis Agassiz ; lecture on cattle husbandry, by Prof. Louis Agassiz ; 

 lecture on grape culture, by E. W. Bull ; discussion on root and other 

 field crops ; discussion on fruit culture ; lecture on what chemistry has 

 accomplished for agriculture, by Dr. James R. Nichols. 



Annual meeting : reports of committees : culture of chicory ; the man- 

 agement of agricultural fairs ; plants as an indication of the nature 

 of the soil ; adaptation of crops to soils ; transplanting fruit and forest 

 trees ; culture of the cranberry ; agriculture of Worcester South, of 

 Middlesex North, of Middlesex South, of Western Hampshire, of Bristol 

 County; the dairy; peat fuel, what is peat? use of as fuel, old process 

 of preparing, machines for preparing, economical advantages of peat 

 fuel, other uses, quantity of peat fuel per acre, methods of testing quality 

 of 2>eat fuel. 



Essay on pasture lands, by John Johnson, Jr. ; essay on agricultural edu- 

 cation, by C. O. Perkins ; removal of the State cabinet to the Agricult- 

 ural College. 



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

 tuities. 



Index. 



Part II., 151 pages. 



Preface. Officers of societies. Exhibitions for 1867. 



Reports of committees : farms, farm buildings, improvement of pastures, 

 reclaiming swamp lands, orchards, vineyards, manures, hedges, grain 

 crops, root crops, cranberries, stock, milch cows, working oxen, horses, 

 sheep, swine, poultry, the dairy. 



Essays : bread and bread making, by Dr. James R. Nichols ; the preser- 

 vation of fruit and the construction of fruit houses, by Robert Manning. 



Appendix : abstract of annual report of trustees of Agricultural College. 



Index. 



Fifteenth Report, 1867-68. 592 pages. 



Part I., 368 pages. 



Roster Board of Agriculture. 



Introduction by Secretary Flint ; report of commissioners on contagious 

 diseases among cattle. 



Public winter meeting of Board at Concord : address on agricultural 

 progress, by E. AY. Bull ; discussion on cattle husbandry; address on 

 the Agricultural College, by Prof. Levi Stockbridge ; discussion on 

 cattle husbandry continued ; discussion on fruit culture ; discussion 

 on ploughing ; lecture on the agricultural features of the Amazon, by 

 Prof. Louis Agassiz ; discussion on ploughing continued ; lecture on 

 manures, by Alexander Hyde ; discussion on drainage. 



Annual meeting : reports of committees : the Agricultural College ; hedges 

 and farm fences ; manure and its application, muck, plaster of Paris 

 a manure, is salt manure ? green crops ploughed under for manure, 



