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

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

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

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

 Highland, Hampden, Eastern Hampden, Union, Franklin County, Deer- 

 field Valley, Berkshire, Hoosac "Valley, Housatonic, Norfolk Comity, 

 Hingham, Bristol County, Bristol Central, Plymouth County, Marsh- 

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



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



Part II., 335 pages. 



Preface. Officers of societies. Exhibitions for 1872. 



Addresses to the societies : progress in agriculture, by Thomas Allen ; 

 progressive farming, by Joseph S. Howe ; our soil, our climate, our 

 crops, by Prof. Levi Stockbridge ; farmers need a higher education, by 

 Henry K. Oliver ; utilization of labor, by Prof. P. A. Chadbourne ; the 

 needs of New England agriculture, by George E. Waring ; the pros- 

 perity and power of Massachusetts, by Dr. George B. Loring ; nothing 

 new, by Samuel B. Noyes. 



Essays : farming as an occupation, by Charles J. Peabody ; the utility of 

 birds to agriculture, by F. H. Palmer; improving our society, by 

 Francis H. Appleton ; the management of agricultural societies, by J. 

 N. Sturtevant ; farming in Hampshire County, by S. C. Thompson ; 

 desirable improvements in the agriculture of Hampshire County, by 

 W. Livermore. 



Reports of committees : farms, under-draining, fertilizers, orchards, forest 

 trees, fruits, grain crops, tobacco statement, vegetables, root crops, 

 stock, working oxen, sheep, swine, poultry, dairj T products, milk, 

 butter, cheese. 



Indexes. 



Twentieth Report, 1872-73. 606 pages. 



Part I., 382 pages. 



Roster Board of Agriculture. 



Introduction by Secretary Flint ; census returns, farm machinery. 



Public winter meeting of Board at Barre : address of welcome by Thomas 

 P. Root ; address by Dr. Charles G. Allen ; lecture on dairy husbandry, 

 by Harris Lewis ; lecture on the relations of botany to agriculture, by 

 Prof. William S. Clark ; lecture on hereditary influence in the improve- 

 ment of stock, breeding in New England, law of propagation, law of 

 inheritance, physiology in its infancy, difference in inheritance, human 

 and animal physiology ; law of propagation defined and illustrated, 

 breeding " in and in," cross-breeding, quality of structure, disease in- 

 herited, Darwin's views, vegetable physiology, by Dr. Nathan Allen ; 

 lecture on practical questions of law relating to farm property, bounda- 

 ries, fences, surface water, irrigation, support of soil, easements, sale 

 of personal property, by F. F. Fay ; lecture on the catarrhal epidemic, 

 by Dr. D. D. Slade ; lecture on manures and fertilizers, by A. H. Ward ; 

 lecture on mowing and pasture lands, by Prof. Levi Stockbridge. 



