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what deed includes, hiring help, rights in road, ways over farm, as to 

 farm fences, impounding cattle, farmer's liability for his animals, liabil- 

 ity for his men, dogs, about tires, water rights and drainage, trespassing 

 on farm, overhanging trees, by Edmund H. Bennett, LL.D. ; lecture on 

 the principles of breeding, by Chas. L. Flint ; lecture on the war with 

 insects, by Dr. Jabez Fisher ; lecture on exhaustion of soils by the 

 growth of plants, by Prof. Levi Stockbridge ; lecture on recent re- 

 searches in regard to seeds, absorption of water, absorption of oxygen 

 during germination, temperature requisite for germination, degree of 

 maturity, vitality, soundness, seed testing, by Prof. George L. Goodale. 



Report of commissioners on contagious diseases among cattle, glanders. 



Annual meeting of Board : report upon sheep husbandry in Massachusetts, 

 destruction of sheep by dogs, winter treatment, summer treatment, 

 diseases, profits, fattening sheep, by James S. Grinnell ; report of 

 State inspector of fertilizers, laws concerning commercial fertilizers, 

 market prices, potash salts, bones, Peruvian guano, ammoniated super- 

 phosphates, by Dr. C. A. Goessmaim ; report on exhibition at Hingham, 

 by Edmund Hersey ; report on improvement of salt marshes in the 

 town of Marshfield, by Dr. C. A. Goessmann. 



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



Part II., 144 pages. 



Officers of societies. Exhibitions for 1879. 



Addresses to the societies : suggestive farm hints, by T. C. Thurlow ; the 

 cause of hard times, by Julius H. Seelye ; what the farm teaches, by 

 George F. Mills ; New England farming restored, by Prof. S. T. Frost. 



Essays : clearing a farm of bowlders, by James J. H. Gregory ; New Eng- 

 land farming, by N. S. Hubbard ; conditions of success on the farm, by 

 Henry E. Hitchcock. 



Reports of committees : farms ; shade trees ; manures ; ploughing ; fruits ; 

 apples ; Indian corn ; field crops of vegetable's ; neat cattle ; milch 

 cows ; sheep husbandry ; poultry, value of poultry product of Bristol 

 County, the popular breeds, care of poultry, the egg, chickens, feeding 

 chickens, what to feed laying hens ; the dairy. 



Indexes. 



Twenty-seventh Report, 1879-80. 518 pages. 

 Part I., 414 pages. 



Roster Board of Agriculture. 



Introduction by Secretary Fliut. 



Public winter meeting of Board at Greenfield : opening address by James 

 S. Grinnell ; lecture on the husbandry and commerce of neat stock and 

 its products, cheese, butter, by John M. Smith ; lecture on my farming 

 experience, and some of the lessons it has taught me, by Avery P. 

 Slade ; lecture on hygiene of the farm (illustrated), by Dr. Edward 

 Hitchcock ; lecture on the dairy cow, the Shorthorns, the Devons, by 

 E. II. Hyde ; lecture on the dairy interests of Massachusetts, by Henry 

 E. Alvord ; report of committee on butter premiums ; lecture on 



