76 AGRICULTURE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



cultural investigation, and the ability of Massachusetts to support the 

 Agricultural College, by Dr. George B. Loring. 



Annual meeting : reports of committees : amending soils by mechanical 

 means ; cultivation of cereals, wheat, barley, rye, oats, buckwheat, 

 Indian corn ; the Agricultural College ; small fruit culture ; commer- 

 cial manures ; the relation of manufactures to agriculture ; farming 

 as an occupation, its advantages as compared with other business ; the 

 best method of feeding dairy stock ; the potato crop. 



Trial of ploughs at Amherst, with illustrations. 



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

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

 West, Worcester North-west, Worcester North, Worcester South, Worces- 

 ter South-east, Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden, Hampshire, High- 

 land, Hampden, Eastern Hampden, Union, Franklin County, Berkshire, 

 Hoosac Valley, Norfolk County, Hingham, Bristol County, Bristol 

 Central, Plymouth County, Marshfield, Barnstable County, Nantucket, 

 Martha's Vineyard. 



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



Part II., 24S pages. 



Preface. Officers of societies. Exhibitions for 1869. 



Addresses to the societies : history of the Essex Agricultural Society, by 

 Dr. George B. Loring ; education in agriculture, by Thomas Hill ; 

 American labor and its position, by Daniel Needham ; relation of 

 agriculture to the State, by Richard Goodman ; future prospects of 

 American agriculture, by Dr. George B. Loring ; intellect in farming, 

 by Alexander Hyde. 



Essay on the pests of the farm, mammals, birds, insects, by E. A. Samuels. 



Reports of committees : farms ; improvement of meadow and swamp lands ; 

 manures ; orchards and fruits ; hedges ; forest trees ; cranberry mead- 

 ows ; grain crops ; root crops ; domestic wines, foreign grapes and 

 foreign wine, American grapes, a few suggestive facts or rules to be 

 regarded in manufacture of wines, what are our resources for wine- 

 making, how to make the best grape wine either from cultivated or 

 wild grapes, blackberry wine, how to make currant wine, elderberry 

 wine, cider or apple wine, rhubarb wine, whortleberry wine, orange 

 wine ; farm implements ; milch cows ; stock ; horses ; sheep ; swine ; 

 poultry, quality of stock, select varieties, coop or hennery, food, feed- 

 ing, laying, soft eggs, how many hens to keep, sitting, nest, brooding, 

 sex of eggs, hatching, chickens, diseases ; dairy products. 



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



Indexes. 



Seventeenth Report, 1869-70. 659 pages. 



Part I., 331 pages. 



Roster Board of Agriculture. 



Introduction by Secretary Flint ; report of commissioners on contagious 



diseases among cattle. 

 Public winter meeting of Board at Pittsfield : opening address by Alex- 



