78 AGRICULTURE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



Eighteenth Report, 1870-71. 736 pages. 

 Part I., 4">6 pages. 



Roster Board of Agriculture. 



Introduction by Secretary Flint ; report of commissioners on contagious 

 diseases among cattle, foot and mouth disease. 



Public winter meeting of Board at Framingham : address on the Board 

 of Agriculture, by Marshall P. Wilder; lecture on roads and road 

 making, comities of Barnstable, Berkshire, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, 

 Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Nantucket, Norfolk, Plym- 

 outh, Suffolk and Worcester, summary, by Chas. L. Flint ; lecture on 

 the principles of breeding, ovum and developmental changes, mem- 

 branes and nutrition of foetus, analysis of uterine milk, causes of ster- 

 ility, fundamental principles of breeding, influence of sire and dam on 

 progeny, breeding of males as a specialty, regulating sexes of offspring, 

 summary, foot and mouth disease, by Prof. James Law ; lecture on 

 markets for the farmer, by Avery P. Slade ; lecture on New England 

 homes, by Prof. Albert Hopkins ; lecture on manures, general and 

 special, by Dr. James R. Nichols ; lecture on field culture of roots and 

 vegetables, soil and its preparation, manure and its application, sow- 

 ing or planting seed, tools, quantity of seed to acre, after-cultivation, 

 gathering crops, varieties of crops, cost of production, by James J. 

 II. Gregory ; lecture on fruit culture, by John B. Moore ; lecture on 

 California, a comparative review of her climate, resources and progress, 

 with observations made in a recent tour to the Pacific coast, by Mar- 

 shall P. Wilder. 



Annual meeting of Board : essay on nature's mode of distributing plants, 

 by Prof. W. S. Clark ; report of examining committee of Agricultural 

 College ; essay on market gardening, rotation of crops in garden cult- 

 ure, by John B. Moore ; report on value of a regular systeiu of farm 

 accounts ; essay on the use of capital in farming, by N. S. Hubbard ; 

 essay on time of cutting and mode of curing hay, by John Johnson ; 

 report in memory of James Thompson ; report on culture and preser- 

 vation of fruits ; report on injurious and beneficial insects of Massa- 

 chusetts (illustrated), importance to agriculturists of a knowledge of 

 insects, insects affecting the currant, apple, grape, field crops, shade 

 and forest trees, beneficial insects, by Dr. A. S, Packard, Jr. 



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

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

 Worcester County West, Worcester North, Worcester North-west, 

 Worcester South, Worcester South-east, Harnytshire, Franklin and 

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

 Berkshire, Hoosac Valley, Housatonic, Norfolk County, Bristol Central, 

 Hingham, Marshfield, Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, Hampden. 



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



Part II., 2S0 pages. 



Preface. Officers of societies. Exhibitions for 1871. 



Addresses to the societies : American mania for large farms, by Benjamin 



