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and gathering hay, grain separators, the king of cereals, wheat culture, 

 the potato, the cotton supply, the hay crop, improvement of stock, fre- 

 quent importations, the dairy interest, the packing business, the wool 

 interest, American horses, our agricultural literature, what science has 

 clone, commercial fertilizers, by Chas. L. Flint; lecture on milk, by 

 Harris Lewis ; lecture on the importance, progress and influence of 

 rural pursuits, by Marshall P. Wilder ; lecture on some home resources 

 of fertilizers, with particular reference to nitrogen plant-food, proper- 

 ties of nitrogen and its relation to plant life, natural resources of nitro- 

 gen plant-food, with reference to their agricultural value, by Dr. C. A. 

 Goessmann ; lecture on the circulation of sap in plants, observations 

 on pressure of sap (illustrated), by Prof. W. S. Clark; discussion on 

 the management of grass lands ; lecture on the structure and growth 

 of domesticated animals, by Prof. Louis Agassiz ; lecture on the hu- 

 mane destruction of animals (illustrated), by Prof. D. D. Slade ; lecture 

 on the breeding and feeding of stock, by Dr. George B. Loring ; de- 

 scription, management, stock, crops, products, expenses and profits 

 of the farm of the State Primary School, by Dr. H. P. Wakefield ; 

 lecture on grape culture in Massachusetts, by Dr. Jabez Fisher ; lecture 

 on the demands of agriculture on veterinary science, and the means of 

 its accomplishment, by Dr. Noah Cressy. 



Report of commissioners on contagious diseases among cattle. 



Annual meeting of Board : report of examining committee of Agricultural 

 College ; report of State inspector of fertilizers, commercial fertilizers, 

 Peruvian guano, fish scraps and fish guano, animal dust, ground bones, 

 bone-black waste, superphosphates and ammoniated superphosphates, 

 crude sulphate of ammonia, crude nitrate of soda, German potash salts, 

 native sulphate of magnesia, by Dr. C. A. Goessmann ; essay on milk, 

 some considerations concerning its morphology (illustrated), milk in 

 general, breed variations, Jersey milk, Ayrshire milk, Dutch milk, by 

 Dr. E. Lewis Sturtevant ; suggestions relating to agricultural societies, 

 proposed national academies, by J. N. Sturtevant ; essay on essentials 

 to agricultural inquiry, by J. N. Sturtevant ; resolutions on death of 

 Prof. Louis Agassiz ; the farm for boys. 



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

 Essex, Middlesex, Middlesex North, Middlesex South, Worcester 

 County West, Worcester North, Worcester South, Worcester South- 

 east, Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden, Highland, Hampden, Eastern 

 Hampden, Deerfield Valley, Union, Franklin County, Berkshire, Hoosac 

 Valley, Ilousatonic, Norfolk County, Hingham, Bristol County, Bristol 

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

 Martha's Vineyard. 



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



Tart II., 152 pages. 



Preface. Officers of societies. Exhibitions for 1874. 



Addresses to the societies : debt and success, by George S. Boutwell ; Chi- 

 nese agriculture, by Chan Laisun ; agriculture from a New England 

 stand-point, by Dr. H. P. Wakefield ; agriculture at home and at the 



