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Gregory ; lecture on tuberculosis in cattle, the extension of tubercu- 

 losis in American cattle, prevention, by Dr. F. S. Billings; lecture 

 on the garden fence, by Prof. L. II. Bailey, Jr. ; lecture on rotation of 

 crops, relation of mineral constituents of plants to composition of soil, 

 on relation of botanical characteristics of our cultivated plants to 

 chemical composition and physical condition of soil, character of ma- 

 nures at our disposal, b} r Dr. C. A. Goessmann ; lecture on corn culture, 

 by B. P. Ware : lecture on some of the injurious insects of Massachu- 

 setts, cut worms, tobacco worms, apple maggot, asparagus beetle, 

 grapevine " thrips, 11 rose leaf " thrips," by Prof. J. A. Lintner ; lecture 

 on Guernsey cattle in America, by Silas Betts ; lecture on laws relating 

 to public and private ways, repairs, guideposts, shade trees, parks and 

 commons, drinking troughs and fountains, public use of highways, 

 law of road, equestrians, pedestrians, omnibuses, stages and horse cars, 

 purposes for which highways may be used, use of highways by adjoin- 

 ing owners, private waj-s, " don't," by B. W. Potter ; lecture on artificial 

 rearing of poultry, first experience with incubators, poultry buildings, 

 by James Rankin. 



Annual meeting of Board. 



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

 of societies, exhibitions for 1886. 



Appendix : report of State inspector of fertilizers, trade values of fertilizing 

 ingredients in raw materials and chemicals, analyses, composition of 

 some compounds in fertilizers, by Dr. C. A. Goessmann. 



Additional notes upon trees and tree planting in Massachusetts, by Prof. C. 

 S. Sargent. 



Essays : protection of trees against insects, by Charles B. Rice ; farm life, 

 by Ethan Brooks : raising calves, by E. E. Bowditch. 



Report of examining committee of Agricultural College. 



Report of cattle commissioners for last quarter of current year, horses, neat 

 stock. 



Dates for holding fairs, how determined. 



Reports : on bulls, by John C. Dillon ; butter, by J. Henry Goddard. 



Address at Iloosac Valley fair, by Henry L. Dawes. 



Lectures : social and political life of the farmer, by Allen P. Soule ; chem- 

 istry on the farm, by Louis P. Nash ; the climate and horticulture of 

 New England, by John E. Russell ; the propagation of trees and 

 shrubs from seed, soil and situation, sowing, second year's treatment, 

 nursery, conifers, box system, rhododendrons, azaleas and kalmias, by 

 Jackson Dawson; heating greenhouses, by Joseph II. Woodford; a 

 comparison of manures for the garden and orchard, by Prof. G. C. 

 Caldwell. 



Index. 



Thirty-fourth Report, 1886. 554 pages. 



Roster Board of Agriculture 

 Introduction by Secretary Russell. 



Special meeting of Board at Barre : pleuro-pneumonia, resolutions, discus- 

 sion, report of Dr. Austin Peters, discussion. 



