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Worcester South, Worcester South-east, Hampshire, Highland, Hamp- 

 den, Eastern Hampden, Union, Franklin County, Deerfield Valley, 

 Berkshire, Hoosac Valley, Housatonic, Norfolk County, Bristol Comity, 

 Marshfield, Plymouth County, Barnstable County, Nantucket, Martha's 

 Vineyard? 

 Returns of societies ; finances, analysis of premiums and gratuities, sum- 

 mary. 



Part II., 192 pages. 



Preface. Officers of societies. Exhibitions for 1876. 



Addresses to the societies : stability of agriculture, by Daniel Needham ; 

 some of the poisons of the farmer's life, by Dr. Edward Hitchcock : 

 relations of science to agriculture, by E. C. Bolles ; practical hints on 

 farming, by Richard Lathers ; the farmer, and his relations to the State, 

 by Sanborn Tenney ; the agricultural outlook, by Dr. George B. Loring ; 

 Texas cattle disease, by Dr. Noah Cressy ; rise of agriculture, by Theo- 

 dore Lyman. 



Essays : reform in the management of agricultural societies, by Francis 

 H. Appleton ; chemical corn growing, by Dr. E. Lewis Sturtevant ; 

 the culture of the apple, by Abel F. Stevens. 



Reports of committees : farm improvements, under-draining land, fruit cult- 

 ure, fruits, renovation of fruit trees, grain crops, grain and grass seed, 

 root crops, manures, dairy stock, dairy products. 



Indexes. 



Twenty-fourth Report, 1876-77. 575 pages. 

 Part I., 360 pages. 



Roster Board of Agriculture. 



Introduction by Secretary Flint. 



Public winter meeting of Board at Worcester : opening address by O. B. 

 Hadwen ; lecture on fruit and fruit culture, location, varieties, by T. 

 S. Gold ; lecture on breeding and management of poultry, by I. K. 

 Felch ; lecture on the Colorado potato beetle, journey from plains east 

 of Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic, habits, enemies, remedies, by Dr. 

 A. S. Packard, Jr. ; lecture on needs of the Massachusetts dairy farmer, 

 by A. W. Cheever ; lecture on the farmer's homestead, and its relation 

 to farm thrift, by Donald G. Mitchell ; lecture on manures and chem- 

 ical fertilizers, by Prof. Levi Stockbridge ; lecture on vegetable gar- 

 dening and root culture, by B. P. Ware. 



Report of commissioners on contagious diseases among cattle. 



Annual meeting of Board : essay on size and conduct of farms in Massa- 

 chusetts, by Daniel Dwight ; report on improvement of salt marshes, 

 bj r Dr. C. A. Goessmann; essay on the importance of arboriculture to 

 the agricultural community, by 0. B. lladwcn : essay on buds, by Prof. 

 P. A. Chad bourne ; report of State inspector of fertilizers, potash fer- 

 tilizers, ashes of hulls of cotton seeds, refuse salts from gunpowder 

 works, saltpetre waste, waste lime from a gas house, sulphate of am- 

 monia, nitrate of soda, dried blood, wool waste, horn waste, animal 



