synopsis. 75 



is lime manure ? is gas lime manure ? ashes are manure, is drainage 

 manure ? is irrigation manure ? the hay crop ; specialties in farming ; 

 apple culture, old orchards, young orchards, transplanting, varieties ; 

 drainage ; fall and spring ploughing ; night soil ; improvement of 

 stock. 



The fairs of 1867, with illustrations. 



Appendix : reports of delegates appointed to visit exhibitions of societies : 

 Essex, Middlesex, Middlesex North, Middlesex South, Worcester North, 

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

 Hampden, Eastern Hampden, Franklin County, Housatonic, Hoosac 

 Valley, Norfolk County, Bristol County, Bristol Central, Plymouth 

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



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



Index. 



Part II., 224 pages. 



Preface. Officers of societies. Exhibitions for 1868. 



Addresses to the societies : what to do with the farm, by R. H. Seeley ; 

 aids to farming, by Simon Brown ; farming as a business, by George 

 E. Towne ; elements of success, by C. O. Perkins ; culture and social 

 position, by Alexander Hyde ; the agricultural society, by Dr. George 

 B. Loring. 



Reports of committees : farms, improving pasture and waste lands, re- 

 claiming swamp lands, orchards and fruits, cultivation of the pear, 

 fruits, grape vineries, cranberries, forest trees and shrubs of Hingham, 

 general crops, grain crops, root crops, flowers, manures, agricultural 

 implements, ploughing and draining, stock, milch cows, thoroughbred 

 bulls, fat cattle, horses, sheep, swine, poultry, dairy products. 



Index. 



Sixteenth Report, 1868-69. 663 pages. 

 Part I., 415 pages. 



Roster Board of Agriculture. 



Introduction by Secretary Flint ; report of commissioners on contagious 

 diseases among cattle ; report of National Convention at Springfield, 

 111. ; Texas cattle disease, theories, symptoms, post-mortem appear- 

 ances, treatment after symptoms. 



Public winter meeting of Board at Amherst: lecture on the work and the 

 wants of the college, by President W. S. Clark ; report of committee 

 on plan of a barn for the college ; lecture on fruit, by J. F. C. Hyde : 

 lecture on commercial fertilizers, by M. C. Weld ; lecture on the 

 principles involved in the preservation of meats, by John Gamgee ; 

 lecture on how to make farming profitable, by William Clift ; lecture 

 on the origin of the agricultural soil, by Prof. Louis Agassiz • lecture 

 on the dairy and its products, the exports, English productions and 

 imports from Holland, cheese consumption, etc., dairying as a specialty, 

 feeding stock for dairy, recent improvements in factory buildings, etc., 

 utilizing whey, butter making, butter factories, by X. A. Willard; 

 lecture on the hay crop, by Alexander Hyde; lecture on the art of 

 agriculture, by Prof. Levi Stock bridge ; lecture on the value of agri- 



