104 AGRICULTURE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



Public winter meeting of Board at Spencer : address of John G. Avery ; 

 response of James S. Grinnell ; remarks on roads and highways, by 

 the secretary ; lecture on home-grown or purchased cattle foods, nitrog- 

 enous plants, grain rations, high feeding, how shall grass be main- 

 tained? ensilage, largest food yield at least cost, manure pile, lessons 

 of harmony, by Prof. James Cheesman ; lecture on fruit growing in 

 Massachusetts, by J. H. Hale ; lecture on the Channel Islands and their 

 agriculture, by Henry H. Goodell ; lecture on the harvest of the sea, or 

 the relation of the fisheries to agriculture, the food fish harvest, history 

 of use of fish on land, nitrogen question, chemistry of subject, economic 

 question, menhaden and blue-fish, history of net fishing, destruction of 

 spawn, injudicious legislation, Lapham Bill, extinction of fish, conclu- 

 sions of English commissioners, scarcity offish, migration offish, State 

 rights and the fisheries, by William II. Bowker ; lecture on the value 

 of breeds and varieties, how they are formed, the effect of food on 

 breeds, by Prof. I. P. Roberts ; lecture on work of Agricultural College 

 and Hatch Experiment Station, by Prof. William P. Brooks ; lecture on 

 work of State Agricultural Experiment Station during 1892, by Dr. C. 

 A. Goessmann ; lecture on work of State Cattle Commission, by Prof. 

 Levi Stockbridge ; lecture on work of Gypsy Moth Committee, spraj-- 

 ing with arsenites, destroying eggs, banding trees, burlap bands, cy- 

 clone burner, results of work, outlook, by E. II. Forbush ; lecture on 

 work of Board of Agriculture, by Secretary Sessions. 



Report of Board on work of extermination of gypsy moth (illustrated) : 

 report of secretary, financial statement ; report of director of field work, 

 life history and habits, food plants, history of work, work of spring and 

 summer, fall inspection, present condition of infested region, progress 

 towards extermination, magnitude of undertaking, work done, plans 

 for future work, destructiveness in Europe, increased destructiveness 

 of introduced insects, damage done by insects to crops in United States ; 

 report of entomologist, parasites. 



Report of dairy bureau, police department, educational work, city milk 

 supply, creameries, dairy schools, Babcock milk tester, financial report. 



Returns of societies ; analysis of premiums and gratuities, membership, 

 institutes, summary'. 



Annual meeting of Board, exhibitions for 1893. 



Report of examining committee of Agricultural College. 



Essays : the agricultural experiment stations of Germany, general infor- 

 mation, differences between German and American stations, station 

 at Gottingen, chemical methods, establishment of digestion coefficients, 

 nutritive ratio, relation of fodder to processes of digestion and assimila- 

 tion, station at Halle, station at Bernburg, station at Darmstadt, nitrogen, 

 phosphoric acid, potash, by Dr. J. B. Lindsey ; the relation of public 

 schools to agriculture, by John E. Kimball ; going West, by L. S. Rich- 

 ards ; the benefits resulting from agricultural societies, by Q. L. Reed. 



Agricultural directory. 



Appendix: report on National Farmers 1 Congress at Lincoln, Neb., by 

 Daniel Needham ; report of cattle commissioners, tuberculosis, laws, 

 glanders, hog cholera. , 



Index. 



