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West, by F. P. Brown ; farmers 1 homes : what they were, are and 



ought to be. by Alexander Hyde: progress in twenty-five years, by 



Robert M. Copeland. 

 Essays: foreign agricultural experiences, by Francis H. Appleton ; hints 



and suggestions on managing the farm, by Charles J. Peabody ; some 



thoughts on the management of agricultural soeieties, by Rev. J. II. 



Temple ; cultivation of the pear, by Abel F. Stevens. 

 Farming in New England, from the supervisors report, Plymouth County 



Agricultural Society. 

 Keports of committees : experiment with commercial fertilizers, cereals, 



roots and vegetables, cranberries, stock, Dutch cattle, swine. 

 Indexes. 



Twency-second Report, 1874-75. 616 pages. 

 Part I., 470 pages. 



Roster Board of Agriculture. 



Introduction by Secretary Flint. 



Public winter meeting of Board at Westfield : address of welcome by X. 

 T. Leonard: lecture on milk, by Prof. L. B. Arnold: lecture on the 

 phosphate beds of the Charleston basin, by Chas. L. Flint ; report on 

 experiments with fertilizers at the Agricultural College, by Prof. Levi 

 Stockbridge ; lecture on winter gardening and glass structures, by 

 William C. Strong ; lecture on root crops and their cultivation, root 

 crops, the carrot, turnips, English turnip, by O. B. Hadwen ; lecture 

 on the pig as a manure and meat making animal, by Joseph Harris : 

 lecture on the law of inheritance ; or, the philosophy of breeding, — 

 introductory, the cell, the sperm, the germ, generation, development, 

 growth, summary, applications, by Dr. E. Lewis Sturtevant ; lecture 

 on observations upon the phenomena of plant life (illustrated), by 

 Prof. William S. Clark. 



Report of commissioners on contagious diseases among cattle. 



Annual meeting of Board : report of examining committee of Agricultural 

 College ; essay on best mode of subduing and utilizing for tillage the 

 salt marshes in this State after they are drained, on character and 

 cultivation of some of sea marshes of Europe, on salt marshes above 

 mouth of Green Harbor River in the township of Marshfield, Plymouth 

 County, Mass., by Dr. C. A. Goessmann ; essay on the apple, history, 

 propagation, management, transplanting, pruning, insects, harvesting, 

 by II. M. Sessions; report of State inspector of fertilizers, German 

 potash salts, Peruvian guano, fish scraps and fish guano, Navassa phos- 

 phate, bone-black waste, ground bones, animal dust, superphosphates, 

 by Dr. C. A. Goessmann ; essay on the mental faculties of our domestic 

 animals, by Prof. P. A. Chadbourne. 



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

 ties: Essex, Middlesex, Middlesex South, Middlesex North, Worcester, 

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

 Worcester Southeast, Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden, Hampshire, 

 Highland, Franklin County. Eastern Hampden. Union, Deerfield Valley. 

 Berkshire, Ilousatonic, Iloosac Valley, Norfolk County, Bristol County, 



