synopsis. 93 



Annual meeting of Board : nomenclature of fruits ; report of State inspector 

 of fertilizers, market prices, analyses, composition of some compounds 

 in fertilizers, by Dr. ('. A. Goessmann. 



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

 of societies, exhibitions for 1884. 



Appendix : first report of Board of Control of Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion : report on field plats, drains, culvert, corn experiments, drainage 

 of buildings, forage crops, feeding barn, experiments, bay, grounds, pig 

 feeding, report on corn experiments and drainage, report on ensilage, 

 silo, door, weights, fodder corn, temperature, bacteria, fermentation, 

 ensilage in silo, experiments with pigs, by Prof. Manly Miles ; report 

 of horticultural department, grasses, experimental fruit plats, influence 

 of stock on scion, testing new varieties of fruits, diseases of plants, 

 destruction of injurious iusects, currant worm, cabbage worm, cureulio 

 or plum weevil, potato beetle, rose bug, germination of weed seeds, by 

 Prof. S. T. Maynard ; report of chemist, fodder and fodder analyses, 

 miscellaneous analyses, valuation of fertilizers and fertilizer analyses, 

 chemistry in fruit culture, peaches and peach yellows, by Dr. C. A. 

 Goessmann. 



Essay on sunshine on the farm, by Dr. James R. Nichols. 



Report on the fair of the Martha's Vineyard Agricultural Society, by James 

 S. Grinnell. 



Abstract of report of trustees of Agricultural College : report of president, 

 report of department of agriculture, report of farm superintendent, 

 report of botanic department, report of chemical department, experi- 

 ments carried on at college since 1870, report of mathematical depart- 

 ment, report of department of English and modern languages, report 

 of military department, trustees, overseers and faculty. 



Index. 



Thirty-second Report, 1884. 570 pages. 



Roster Board of Agriculture. 



Introduction by Secretary Russell. 



Public Avinter meeting of Board at Great Barrington : address of Merritt 

 I. Wheeler; address of Joseph A. Kline; lecture on water and its 

 supply for our crops, by John W. Pierce; lecture on utilization of 

 sewage, ancient method of gathering sewage, cesspools, methods of 

 disposal, disposal of sub-surface irrigation, irrigation and agriculture, 

 irrigation at Paris, sanitation, transportation, temperature of sewage, 

 dilution of sewage, favorable soils, by Dr. Henry J. Barnes ; discus- 

 sion on plants in their relation to disease ; lecture on hindrances to 

 successful tanning, debt, cultivating too much land, pastures, wood- 

 land, firewood, fences, manures, harvesting, roots, weeds, insects, dairy- 

 ing, laborers, improved animals, implements, by -lames S. Grinnell; 

 lecture on enzootic abortion in cows, by Dr. F. S. Billings; lecture 

 on forest tree planting, by Avery P. Slade; lecture on pastures and 

 pasturing, what shall be size of pastures? pasturing cattle, sheep and 

 horses together, shall we plough pastures? using commercial fertilizers 

 on pastures, drainage and irrigation, weeds and bushes, by T. S. Gold; 



