96 AGRICULTURE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



Public winter meeting of Boai'd at Barre : address of J. Henry Goddard ; 

 opening address by Charles A. Gleason ; lecture on Holstein cattle in 

 America, color, horns, flexibility, by Gerrit S. Miller ; lecture on beef 

 fattening for the New England market, by Joseph A. Titus ; lecture on 

 specialties in farming, by Avery P. Slade ; lecture on experiments in 

 potato culture (illustrated), by Edmund Hersey ; lecture on reclaiming 

 land, by Francis II. Appleton ; lecture on sheep husbandry, by E. F. 

 Bowditch ; lecture on influence of agriculture on climate, evaporation, 

 by M. W. Bartlett ; lecture on homoeopathy in agriculture, by William H. 

 Bowker ; lecture on progressive agriculture, variety and quality of 

 products, farm stock, implements, improvement in lands, demands and 

 possibilities of future, by Ethan Brooks ; lecture on swine for the home 

 market, by Edward Burnett ; lecture on corn culture, by J. Henry God- 

 dard ; lecture on the dairy, by Henry E. Alvord. 



Annual meeting of Board : resolutions on death of Marshall P. Wilder ; 

 powers and duties of overseers of Massachusetts Agricultural College 

 defined ; resignation of Secretary Russell. 



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

 of societies, exhibitions for 1887. 



Appendix : report of State inspector of fertilizers, by Dr. C. A. Goessmann. 



Report of cattle commissioners, neat stock, glanders, hog cholera. 



Report on fair of Massachusetts Horticultural Society, by Dr. J. P. Lynde. 



Essays : corn, manner of cultivation, manner of harvesting, discussion, by 

 Philander S. Sears ; fruit as a farm product, by E. W. AVood. 



Fourth report of Board of Control of Agricultural Experiment Station: 

 report of director ; feeding experiments with milch cows, fodder and 

 fodder analyses, analyses of feed stuffs with reference to fertilizing 

 constituents they contain, by Dr. C. A. Goessmann ; field experiments, 

 fodder corn raised upon underdrained and exhausted lands partly fer- 

 tilized with single articles of plant food and partly without use of any 

 manurial matter, fodder corn and corn ensilage, influence of fertilizers 

 on quantity and quality of some prominent fodder crops, experiments 

 with cultivation of fodder crops to furnish continuous supply of suitable 

 green fodder for dairy stock during summer season, experiments with 

 potatoes, observations with scabby potatoes, miscellaneous field experi- 

 ments with farm and garden crops, by Dr. C. A. Goessmann ; valuation 

 of fertilizers and fertilizer analyses, trade values of fertilizing ingre- 

 dients in raAV materials and chemicals, in superphosphates, special 

 manures and mixed fertilizers of high grade, analyses of fertilizers, 

 analyses of well water ; meteorology ; report of treasurer. 



Index. 



Thirty-fifth Report, 1887. 818 pages. 



Roster Board of Agriculture. 



Introduction by Secretary Sessions. 



Special meeting of Board at Boston : resolutions on death of John B. Moore ; 



election of William R. Sessions. 

 Public winter meeting of Board at Springfield : opening address by Ethan 



Brooks ; lecture on fruit culture in Massachusetts, apple, pear, peach, 



