81 AGRICULTURE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



Bristol Central, Plymouth County, Marshfield, Hingham, Barnstable 

 County, Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard. 

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



Part II., 140 pages. 



Preface. Officers of societies. Exhibitions for 1875. 



Addresses to the societies : capital in farming, by John L. Shorey ; the 



currency, and its effect on the farming interest, by Julius H. Seelye ; 



management of farms, by Richard Lathers ; the vocation of farming, 



by Orville Dewey ; how fanning pays, by Richard Goodman ; the 



coming farmer, by John Quincy Adams. 

 Reports of committees : farm improvements, fruit, vineyards, root crops, 



Indian corn, dairy stock, working oxen, sheep, poultry. 

 Indexes. 



Twenty-third Report, 1875-76. 608 pages. 

 Part I., 416 pages. 



Roster Board of Agriculture. 



Introduction by Secretary Flint. 



Public winter meeting of Board at Haverhill : opening remarks by Dr. 

 George B. Loring ; lecture on experiments in feeding plants, by Prof. 

 Levi Stockbridge ; lecture on co-operation among farmers, by Prof. P. 

 A. Chadbourne ; lecture on the breeding and management of horses, 

 by Rev. Wm. H. H. Murray ; lecture on bowlder rocks, their probable 

 origin and history, and their use in construction of dwellings, by Dr. 

 James R. Nichols ; discussion on vegetable culture and market gar- 

 dening ; remarks relative to centennial exhibition, by Leverett Salton- 

 stall ; lecture on restoration of the forests, by George B. Emerson, 

 LL.D. ; discussion on cattle husbandry ; discussion on cultivation of 

 fruits. 



Report of commissioners on contagious diseases among cattle. 



Annual meeting of Board : report of examining committee of Agricultural 

 College, agricultural scholarships, dairying, cultivation of small fruits, 

 agricultural experiments, raising forest trees, garden seeds ; essay on 

 Devon cattle, history, color, English improved, American improved, 

 by II. M. Sessions ; essay on agriculture as a life work, by Henry S. 

 Goodale ; essay on methods for improvement of fruits, by Marshall P. 

 Wilder ; resolutions on death of Hon. Albert Fearing ; report on the 

 salt marshes above the mouth of Green Harbor River, in township of 

 Marshfield, Plymouth County, Mass., by Dr. C. A. Goessmann ; sug- 

 gestions on tree planting in Massachusetts, by Prof. C. S. Sargent; 

 essay on mental faculties of domestic animals, by Hebron Vincent; 

 report of State inspector of fertilizers, potash salts, Peruvian guano, 

 fish guano, ground horn and hoof, sulphate of ammonia, mineral phos- 

 phates, ground bones, superphosphates, by Dr. C. A. Goessmann. 



Brief history of the State Board of Agriculture, by Chas. L. Flint, 



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



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



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



