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ander Hyde ; address of Richard Goodman ; lecture on salt and its 

 uses in agriculture, our modes of manufacture, by Dr. C. A. Goess- 

 mann ; discussion on mineral manures ; lecture on the obstacles to the 

 progress of scientific agriculture, by Prof. P. A. Chadbourne ; lecture 

 on fruit culture, thinning, preservation and ripening, methods for pro- 

 ducing new native fruits, by Marshall P. Wilder ; lecture on fish breed- 

 ing, b} r Prof. Louis Agassiz ; lecture on the rotation of crops, by Prof. 

 Levi Stockbridge ; lecture on the farmer and the college, by Dr. George 

 B. Loring. 



Annual meeting : communication relative to holding of farmers 1 institutes ; 

 reports of committees : preparation of the soil and planting of the 

 seed ; breeding and training of horses ; the Agricultural College ; 

 clover as a fertilizer ; the use of muck ; climate as affected by soil 

 and location ; fruit culture, varieties. 



Paper on new or little known injurious insects (illustrated), insects injuring 

 the apple, cherry, cranberry vine, currant, raspberry, oak, pine, orna- 

 mental shrubs, garden vegetables, etc., plant house insects, by Dr. A. 

 S. Packard, Jr. 



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

 Essex, Middlesex, Middlesex North, Worcester, Worcester County 

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

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

 Highland, Hampden, Eastern Hampden, Union, Franklin County, 

 Housatonic, Norfolk County, Bristol Central, Hingham, Marshfield, 

 Martha's Vineyard. 



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



Part II., 328 page9. 



Preface. Officers of societies. Exhibitions for 1870. 



Addresses to the societies : experience of a practical farmer, by B. P. Ware ; 

 legislative aids to agriculture, by Benjamin F. Butler ; plant life, by 

 Eliphalet Stone ; the relations of soil culture to soul culture, by Rev. 

 Washington Gladden ; agricultural fairs and their purposes, by Prof. 

 John Bascom ; opportunities of the New England farmer, by Richard 

 Goodman ; the farmer's conflict, by Dr. George B. Loring ; agriculture 

 in Massachusetts, by Warren A. Durant. 



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

 manures ; orchards and vineyards ; grain crops ; root crops ; vegeta- 

 bles ; fruits ; cranberry meadows ; farm implements ; stock ; sheep ; 

 poultry, general shape of all Brahmas, coops ; dairy products. 



Prize essays on roads and road making : the science of road making (illus- 

 trated), Part II., on the best methods of superintending the construction 

 and repair of public roads in this Commonwealth, by Clemens Herschel ; 

 appendix, recent expressions of public opinion on the subject of better 

 roads and road management, " Boston 1 )aily Advertiser" ; extracts from 

 report of committee on appointment of road engineer, to Newton town 

 meeting; the construction and repair of roads (illustrated), by Samuel 

 F. Miller; the maintenance and repairs of common roads, by Henry 

 Onion. 



Indexes. 



