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AGRICULTURE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



ABSTRACTS FROM RETURNS OF AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 



1845-1852. 



[The numerals refer to year of volume and page, respectively. The dashes are used to avoid 

 repetition of topic headings.] 



Accounts, farm, farm diaries and agri- 

 cultural registers (Ben: Perley Poore), 



1850, 106. 



Adams, Charles F., address by, on what 

 can be done for the farming of Norfolk 

 County, 1850, 426. 



Advertisements to transactions of agri- 

 cultural societies, 1845, ix; 1846, ix; 1847, 

 v; 1S48, iii; 1850, iii; 1851, v; 1852, iii. 



Agricultural Bureau at Washington, 

 concerning an, 1851, 480. 



— community, the deficiency of scientific 

 information in the, and the need of its 

 being supplied (Prof. Charles U. Shep- 

 hard), 1847, 248. 



— convention at Boston, proceedings of 

 the associated, 1851, 398. 



— corporations, laws concerning, 1845, 

 ix; 1846, ix ; 1852, 775. 



— economy and agricultural ethics (J. S. 

 C. Knowlton), 1851, 553. 



— education (Boutwell, George S.), 1851, 

 423. 



(Wilder, Marshall P.), 1851, 589. 



agriculture to be advanced by science 



and (Marshall P. Wilder), 1849, 402. 

 an, the great need of the American 



agriculturist (W. S. King), 1852, 628. 

 concerning, 1849, 366, 402; 1850,374, 



409; 1851, 400, 423,439, 479, 489, 589; 



1852, 563, 628, 674. 

 memorial on, to the Legislature, 1851, 



489. 

 resolutions by Massachusetts Board 



of Agriculture concerning, l s 51, 439. 



— employments for women, 1845, 137. 



— experiments, concerning, 1846, 61 ; 



1849, 170, 309; 1851, 125. 



— fairs, benefits resulting from, 1845, 37; 



1851, 185; 1852, 396,604. 



— implements (Simon Brown), 1851, 522. 

 concerning, 1845, 52 ; 1846, 68 ; 1847, 



114, 157; 1848, 31; 1849, 174, 257, 295; 



1850, 25, 145, 169, 239, 267, 307, 407; 



1851, 147, 296, 346, 439, 489, 522; 1852, 

 35, 361, 395. 



Agricultural, horticultural and orna- 

 mental tree associations, law concerning, 

 1852, 782. 



— improvements (Asa T. Newhall), 1849, 

 357. 



concerning, 1845, 92; 1846,119; 1847, 



160,197; 1849,308; 1850,324; 1851,347, 

 400, 586 ; 1852, 482, 600. 



— laborers, concerning, 1850, 309; 1851, 

 106. 



— literature, concerning, 1847, 230. 



— product, history and importance of the 

 Indian corn as an (Charles L. Flint), 

 1849, 103. 



— products, concerning, 1845, 84; 1846, 

 107; 1847,149; 1848,27; 1849,252,203, 

 346; 1850, 263, 270; 1851, 281, 293; 

 1852, 365, 484. 



— progress in Massachusetts for the last 

 half century (Charles T. Russell), 1850, 

 397. 



— schools, concerning, 1847, 269; 1849, 

 212; 1S50, 446; 1851,417,432,546. 



— societies, establishment of agricultural 

 libraries by (Allen W. Dodge), 1848, 

 131. 



incorporation of, dates of, 1845, x. 



influence of, 1845, 172; 1852, 396. 



laws concerning, 1845, xi; 1846, ix; 



1852, 775, 782. 



list of, and bounty received, 1845, ix. 



premiums offered by, abstracts of, 



1845, 126; 1846, 155; 1847, 202; 1848, 



186; 1849, 353; 1850, 359; 1851, 394; 



1852, 556. 

 returns of, suggestions concerning 



character of (Allen W. Dodge), 1846, x. 

 transactions of the, 1845, ix; 1S46, 



ix; 1847, v; 1848, iii; 1850, iii; 1851, 



v; 1852, iii. 



— statistics, 1848,210; 1819, 181,299, 306, 

 331,406; 1850,318,401,420; 1851,401. 



— survey, resolve providing for an, 1845, x. 

 Agriculture, advantages of science in 



its application to, the (Prof. J. P. Nor- 

 ton), 1851, 562. 



