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ence of chemistry in the development of a rational system of stock 

 feeding, experiments with non-nitrogenous substances, with nitrogen 

 containing organic substances, nitrogenous constituents of food, non- 

 nitrogenous constituents of food, mineral constituents of food, tables, 

 physiological or nutritive value of an article of food, tables, by Dr. C. 

 A. Goessmann ; lecture on tobacco and its culture in the Connecticut 

 River Valley, by J. M. Smith ; discussion on tobacco ; lecture on fowls 

 for the table and market, laws of breeding, grading and crossing, 

 practical points, English experience, broilers, fall chickens, fattening, 

 killing and picking, capons, fattening pullets, by M. C. Weld ; lecture 

 on barb wire and the fence question, cost of fences, the English fence 

 system, the fence in America, wire fencing, barb wire in use, by Henry 

 M. Smith ; lecture on agricultural machinery and implements, by 

 James S. Grinnell ; lecture on forest fires, by Prof. C. S. Sargent ; 

 lecture on breeding of horses, by John E. Russell. 



Report of commissioners on contagious diseases among cattle. 



Annual meeting of Board : essay on value of a protective tariff to the farmer, 

 by Joseph S. Fay; essay on raising and selecting field and garden 

 seeds, by O. B. Hadwen ; essay on the army Avorm, by Daniel Round ; 

 report of the State inspector of fertilizers, market prices, analyses of 

 fertilizers, by Dr. C. A. Goessmann ; essay on the silo and ensilage, 

 by B. P. Ware. 



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

 of societies, exhibitions for 1S83. 



Appendix : report of Board of Control of Agricultural Experiment Station ; 

 report of chemist, list of experiments proposed for year 1883. 



Report on twenty-seventh cattle show of Nantucket Agricultural Society, by 

 James S. Grinnell. 



Paper on mineral constituents in plant growth, experiments with grape- 

 vines, experiments with strawberries, experiments with peach trees, 

 by Dr. C. A. Goessmann. 



Abstract of report of trustees of Agricultural College, educational plan 

 of college, repairs, improvements, wants. 



Index. 



Thirty-first Report, 1883. 472 pages. 



Roster Board of Agriculture. 



Introduction by Secretary Russell. 



Public winter meeting of Board at Lowell : opening address, libraries, 

 manufacturing, railroads, military record, by A. C. Varnum ; address 

 by Mayor J. J. Donovan ; lecture on veterinary problems of the day, 

 by Dr. D. E. Salmon ; lecture on the place and the work of the State 

 College, by President J. C. Greenough ; lecture on experiments with fer- 

 tilizers, by John W. Pierce ; lecture on market gardening, by John B. 

 Moore ; lecture on Jersey cattle in America : their present and future, 

 by Richard Goodman, Jr. : lecture on how shall we fertilize our farms? 

 by El bridge Cushman ; lecture on cranberry culture and its insect 

 pests, by Wintred A. Stearns. 



