CONTENTS. 



Vll 



Statement of experiments to prove the influence of subsoil 



ploughing on the corn crop, 

 of the cultivation of an oat crop, 

 of the cultivation of Indian corn crops, 

 of the cultivation of a bean crop, 

 of a process of renovating exhausted land 



Report on Ploughing 



Returns of the Bristol County Agricultural Society. 

 Report on Fruit and Vegetables, .... 



" " Manufactures, ..... 



« « Ploughing, 



Returns of the Barnstable Agricultural Society, 

 Remarks on the Fair and Address before the Society, 

 Report on Produce, ...... 



" " Farms, with a statement of the management of a farm, 



Page 112 

 114 

 114 

 117 

 119 

 120 



121 

 121 

 122 

 123 



124 

 124 

 124 

 125 



Abstract of Premiums offered by the several Agricultural Societies in 1845, 126 

 " of Premiums and Gratuities awarded by the same in 1845, . 128 



APPENDIX. 



Extracts from an Address by the Reverend £. M. Stone, before the Essex 



Agricultural Society, . . . . . .133 



" from an Address by the Honorable Asahel Foote, Jr., before the 



Berkshire Agricultural Society, .... 143 



Address of President Hitchcock, before the Agricultural Societies of Hamp- 

 shire and Hampden Counties, . . . . .151 



Description of the Stock recently imported by the Massachusetts Society 

 for promoting Agriculture, by E. Phinney, a Trustee of the 

 Society, ........ 183 



