synopsis. 99 



fertilizers, experiments with fodder crops for green fodder, experiments 

 ■with potatoes, observations with scabby potatoes (illustrated) ; the po- 

 tato scab, by Prof. J. E. Humphrey ; experiments with root crops (illus- 

 trated) ; notes on miscellaneous field work ; new laws for regulation 

 of sale of commercial fertilizers, fertilizer analyses, valuation of fer- 

 tilizers and fertilizer anah r ses, trade values ; analyses of water ; com- 

 pilation of analyses made at Amherst of agricultural chemicals and 

 refuse materials used for fertilizing purposes and of analyses of fodder 

 articles, fruits and sugar-producing plants, etc., by W. II. Beal ; mete- 

 orology ; report of treasurer ; plans. 

 Index. 



Thirty-seventh Report, 1889. 740 pages. 

 Report of Secretary, 407 pages. 



Roster Board of Agriculture. 



Introduction ; statistics of creameries, sjmopsis of crop reports, mortgaged 

 and abandoned farms, weather data, gypsy moth, by Secretary Sessions. 



Public winter meeting of Board at Fitchburg : address of Mayor Culley ; 

 opening address by Rev. C. S. Brooks ; lecture on orchard management, 

 fertilization, insects and their destruction, thinning fruits, handling and 

 marketing, by Dr. Jabez Fisher ; lecture on market gardening as a 

 business, by Peter Henderson ; lecture on impressions received from 

 rambles in the West, by Prof. Levi Stockbridge ; lecture on economical 

 feeding of dairy stock, by Prof. W. W. Cooke ; lecture on grading-up 

 dairy stock, how to reduce cost of production, grading-up, fundamental 

 laws and conditions, pedigrees, practical effect of chance breeding, 

 external indications of good dairy stock, selection, development, differ- 

 ence in cost of keeping, cost of butter production, by F. D. Douglas ; 

 lecture on the farm and farmer the basis of national strength, food 

 question, capital in agricultural land, farm as place to grow men, edu- 

 cational influences of farm, an independent middle class, agricultural 

 depression, Massachusetts agriculture, a conservator of conservatism, 

 by Prof. William H. Brewer ; lecture on the economic disposition of 

 milk, too much milk, factory cheese, domestic cheese, summer milk, 

 factory butter, dairy butter, fertilizing elements, sale of milk, by Z. A. 

 Gilbert ; lecture on the economical disposition of the wastes of the 

 dairy, by Prof. William P. Brooks; lecture on how to make poultry 

 keeping profitable, by Dr. G. M. Twitchell. 



Annual meeting of Board : resolutions on death of Dr. J. P. Lynde, on 

 death of Avery P. Slade, resolutions concerning gypsy moth. 



Report of examining committee of Agricultural College, act of Congress, act 

 of Legislature, college located, college farm, stock, horticultural depart- 

 ment, botanic museum, anniversary exercises, college fund, instruction 

 at the college. 



Essays: agricultural societies and their management, by J. II. Rowley; 

 soils of Massachusetts, by Prof. X. S. Shaler; choosing an occupation, 

 by J. Henry Goddard ; tuberculosis, by Dr. William Ilolbrook ; tuber- 

 culosis, by Dr. George B. Loring ; fanning in England, by Dr. (ieorge 

 B. Loring. 



