SYNOPSIS. 81 



Report of commissioners on contagious diseases among cattle. 



Annual meeting of Board : report on the injurious and beneficial effects 

 of insects, insects injurious to the strawberry, bean, fruit and forest 

 trees, beneficial insects, by Dr. A. S. Packard, Jr. ; essay on the use 

 of steam on the farm, by Prof. Levi Stockbridge ; report of examining 

 committee of Agricultural College ; essay on the relative value of 

 farming among the occupations of life, by N. S. Hubbard ; lecture on 

 the structure and growth of domesticated animals (illustrated), by Prof. 

 Louis Agassiz ; introduction of machinery (illustrated). 



Appendix : reports of delegates appointed to visit exhibitions of socie- 

 ties : Barnstable County, Berkshire, Deerfield Valley, Essex, Franklin 

 County, Hampden, Eastern Hampden, Hampshire, Hampshire, Frank- 

 lin and Hampden, Highland, Hingham, Hoosac Valley, Housatonic, 

 Marshfield, Martha's Vineyard, Middlesex, Middlesex North, Middlesex 

 South, Nantucket, Norfolk County, Plymouth Count}-, Union, Worcester, 

 AVorcester North, Worcester South, Worcester South-east, Worcester 

 County West. 



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



Tart II., 224 pages. 



Preface. Officers of societies. Exhibitions for 1873. 



Addresses to the societies : what shall we raise? by William D. Northend ; 

 New England farming, by Dr. George B. Loring ; the relation of agri- 

 culture to manhood, by C. W. Emerson ; does farming pay ? by Prof. 

 Levi Stockbridge ; resources of Massachusetts, by William Claflin ; 

 unity of interests, by Eliphalet Stone ; New England home life, by 

 Prof. P. A. Chadbourne ; how farmers can improve their present con- 

 dition, by Sanborn Tenney. 



Essays : education and agriculture, by Hosah G. Goodrich ; the cost of a 

 crop of corn to the Massachusetts farmer, by Dr. E. Lewis Sturtevant ; 

 our forests, by L. B. Caswell ; South Carolina phosphates, by R. N. 

 Oakman. 



Reports of committees : manures, farms, reclaiming swamp lands, destruc- 

 tion of canker worms, hay crop, Indian corn, roots and vegetables, 

 fruits, stock, poultry, dairy products, transplanting forest trees. 



Prize essay on insect-eating birds (illustrated), by F. H. Palmer. 



Indexes. 



Twenty-first Report, 1873-74. 628 pages. 

 Part I., 476 pages. 



Roster Board of Agriculture. 



Introduction by Secretary Flint. 



Public winter meeting of Board at Fitchburg : address of Capt. E. T. Miles ; 

 address of Mayor Norcross ; lecture on a hundred years 1 progress of 

 American agriculture, before the Revolution, first cattle in New Eng- 

 land, treatment of cattle, beginning of grass culture, early farm imple- 

 ments, ploughs, early modes of cultivation, wheat, r3'e and barley, 

 cultivation of fruit, restrictions on colonial agriculture, organized effort, 

 public exhibitions, cast iron used, the harrow, smaller farm tools, making 



