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Public winter meeting of Board at Bridgewater: opening address by Dr. 

 L. G. Lowe ; lecture on the digestion and winter feeding of domestic 

 animals, by Dr. George Austin Bowen ; lecture on fruit growing, by 

 Avery P. Slade ; lecture on the necessity of a standard axle for vehi- 

 cles, by Charles G. Davis ; lecture on harvesting corn, by Prof. Levi 

 Stockbridge ; lecture on the sugars : their chemical nature and history, 

 by Dr. James R. Nichols ; lecture on the management of cultivated 

 mowing lands, by John B. Moore; lecture on the nature of swamp 

 muck and its value in agriculture, origin of muck deposits, their age, 

 differences in muck, pond mud, etc., muck proper, chemistry of muck 

 beds, nitrogen in muck, analysis of muck, analysis of cow manure, 

 analysis of liquid excrement, muck humus, farm trials of muck, muck 

 meadow experiments, views upon value of muck, by Dr. James R. 

 Nichols; lecture on growing and feeding forage crops in New Eng- 

 land, by A. W. Cheever ; lecture on how the silo may be made available 

 by any farmer, by Dr. W. L. Faxon ; lecture on the farmer's home of 

 the past and future, by Prof. P. A. ( hadbourne ; lecture on animal 

 growth and nutrition, composition of foods, German tables, manure 

 value of foods, nutrients consumed, rations for cows, ensilage, cost of 

 silos, drying wastes silo preserves, green foods better than dry, fer- 

 mentation makes food digestible, warm food, food combination, by Prof. 

 J. W. Sanborn ; discussion on animal growth and nutrition ; discussion 

 on fruit culture. 



Report of commissioners on contagious diseases among cattle, hog cholera. 



Annual meeting of Board : essay on the chemistry of nitrogen in its rela- 

 tions to agriculture, by Dr. James R. Nichols ; essay on the sanitary 

 essentials of the home and farm, by Dr. J. P. Lynde ; report of the 

 State inspector of fertilizers, market prices, potash compounds, bone 

 fertilizers, animal matter, dried ground fish, ammoniated superphos- 

 phates, peat, by Dr. C. A. Goessmann ; essay on the agriculture of 

 Massachusetts for forty years, sheep, swine, poultry, hay, corn, oats, 

 potatoes, tobacco, rye, barley, buckwheat, dairy, by James S. Grinneil. 



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

 of societies, exhibitions for 1882. 



Appendix : the culture of corn, by J. B. Lawes, LL.D., F.R.S., and Henry 

 Stewart ; the nitrogen supply, by J. B. Lawes, LL.D., F.R.S. 



Abstract of report of trustees of Agricultural College, wants of the insti- 

 tution. 



Index. 



Thirtieth Report, 1882. 459 pages. 



Roster Board of Agriculture. 



[ntroduction by Secretary Russell. 



Special meeting of Board at Amherst. 



Public winter meeting of Board at Northampton: opening address by IT. 

 ('.Haskell; address of welcome by Trot'. 1'. A. ('hadbourne : lecture 

 on the milk question, shall milk be sold? how shall milk be sold ? if 

 milk is not sold what shall be done with it; 1 by Henry E. Alvord; 

 lecture on Indian corn, by Dr. 15. D. Halsted; lecture on the inllu- 



