90 AGRICULTURE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



Public winter meeting of Board at Southborough : address of welcome by 

 Joseph Burnett ; lecture on ornamental trees, by Prof. John Robinson ; 

 lecture on various methods of setting milk for cream, by Edward Bur- 

 nett ; lecture on the growing of corn, seed, ploughing, harrowing 

 fertilizing, planting, cultivation, corn stover, harvesting, husking, crows 

 by Dr. E. Lewis Sturtevant ; lecture on farm architecture, houses and 

 barns (illustrated), by E. C. Gardner; lecture on the system of pre- 

 serving green food in silos, by Dr. C. A. Goessmann. 



Report of commissioners on contagious diseases among cattle, tuberculosis. 



Annual meeting of Board : report on improvement of salt marshes in town 

 of Marshfield, by Dr. C. A. Goessmann; report of examining com- 

 mittee of Agricultural College, farm, horticultural, chemical, financial ; 

 essay on experiments in potato culture, by B. P. Ware ; essaj' on the 

 cultivation of the basket willow, by Edmund Hersey ; report of State 

 inspector of fertilizers, market prices, potash compounds, mineral 

 phosphates, bone fertilizers, ammoniated superphosphates, by Dr. C. 

 A. Goessmann ; experiment station. 



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



Part II., 1G5 pages. 



Officers of societies. Exhibitions for 1881. 



Reports of committees : stock in general ; swine, selection of breed, selec- 

 tion of male, selection and management of breeding sows, in and in 

 breeding, management of pigs, hog. pens, making manure, diseases of 

 hogs, breeds, the Essex, Yorkshire, Chester White, Suffolk, Poland- 

 China, Berkshire ; poultry ; new variety of winter apples ; fine arts ; 

 needle work ; floral department, Hoosac Valley Society ; statements 

 on corn culture ; report of experiments in culture of potatoes. 



Essays : apples as food for animals, by Dr. James R. Xichols ; green fodder 

 all the year, the preserving pits, filling the pits, mixiug fodder in the 

 pits, by O. B. Potter ; the culture of corn, corn fertilization, the culti- 

 vation of corn, by Henry Stewart; the pioneer industries of Essex 

 Comity, by David W. Low ; harvest hymn, by Miss Marcia M. Selman. 



Address on the social and intellectual life of the farmer, isolation of farmers 1 

 households, the farmer's exhausting labor, farmers 1 wives, slowness of 

 mind, tendency to excessive conservatism, narrow utilitarianism and 

 disregard for beauty, the possibility of improvement, recognition of the 

 need, neighborhood fellowship, intercourse with men, interest in religion 

 and its institutions, revived interest in farming, by Rev. L. S. Rowland. 



Abstract of report of trustees of Agricultural College : the school, improve- 

 ments of the year, farm, horticultural department, experiment station, 

 chemical department, botanic department, trustees, overseers, faculty 

 and students, course of stud}- and training, prizes, etc. 



Indexes. 



Twenty-ninth Report, 1881. 428 pages. 



Roster Board of Agriculture. 



Introduction by Secretary Russell ; ensilage, green fodder corn, dried fod- 

 der corn, pastures, agricultural statistics. 



