98 AGRICULTURE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



ing purposes ; meteorology, record of maximum and minimum tem- 

 perature and rainfall, Amherst, 183G-87 ; report of treasurer ; plans. 

 Index. 



Thirty-sixth Report, 1888. 676 pages. 



Roster Board of Agriculture. 



Introduction ; distribution of annual report, licensed dogs, dairying, crops 

 of the year, by Secretary Sessions. 



Public winter meeting of Board at Easthampton : opening address by S. T. 

 Seelye, D.D. ; address of Dr. George B. Loring ; lecture on experience 

 with commercial fertilizers, by S. G. Hubbard : lecture on chemical 

 fertilizers, what do plants require ? how has it been shown that nitro- 

 gen, phosphoric acid and potash are needed by crops ? phosphoric acid, 

 potash, nitrogen, how shall we use these materials ? can chemical fer- 

 tilizers take the place of farmyard manure ? by Prof. G. H. Whitcher ; 

 lecture on paramount fertilizers, by Dr. E. Lewis Sturtevant ; lecture 

 on profit from sheep, by J. D. Avery ; lecture on life in Japan, by 

 William Wheeler; lecture on cranberry culture, by J. W. Stock well ; 

 remarks on the apple orchard, by P. M. Augur and T. S. Gold ; lecture 

 on strawberries and currants for market, by E. W. Wood ; lecture on 

 market gardening, location and soil, manures, seeds, seed sowing and 

 crop culture, markets and marketing, by A. H. Smith ; lecture on irri- 

 gation, by W. W. Rawson ; lecture on hay for market, conditions of 

 success, habits and physical construction of grass plants, seed bed, fer- 

 tilization, moisture, good seed, obstacles, hay raising as a specialty, by 

 J. B. Walker ; lecture on reminiscences of the Orient, by Henry H. 

 Goodell ; lecture on co-operative dairying, organization, buildings, 

 factory management, business management, cream gathering system, 

 by S. W. Clark ; lecture on farmers 1 wives and daughters, by Mrs. 

 George R. Chase ; remarks of Moses Humphrey, of James Draper, of 

 H. A. Barton, Jr., of B. P. Ware ; lecture on the uses of association by 

 and among agriculturists, by J. M. Hubbard ; remarks of Oscar Ely, 

 of II. A. Barton, Jr., of S. A. Hickox, of A. W. Cheever, of Secretary 

 Sessions. 



Annual meeting of Board. 



Essays : American agriculture, by Dr. George B. Loring ; Massachusetts 

 agriculture, by James S. Grinnell ; a hundred acres or more, by El- 

 bridge Cushman ; market gardening, by W. W. Rawson. 



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

 of societies, exhibitions for 1889. 



Appendix : statutes relating to Board of Agriculture, to agricultural and 

 horticultural societies, regulations of the Board. 



Report of cattle commissioners, horses, neat stock, hog cholera ; appendix 

 on tuberculosis, by Dr. J. F. Winchester. 



Sixth report of Board of Control of Agricultural Experiment Station : cuts ; 

 report of Director Goessmann ; feeding experiments with milch cows, 

 physiological or feeding value, commercial value or actual cost of a 

 fodder article ; feeding experiments with pigs ; analyses of fodder 

 articles; field experiments with fodder corn (illustrated) , influence of 



