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to the establishment of Agricultural Libraries and Agri- 

 cultural Societies ; and in 1850 to the rearing of the 

 Turkey. The same year Temple Cutler discussed the 

 improvement of wet meadows and swamp lands. In 

 1849, John Pickering made an elaborate report on Poul- 

 try; C. L. Flint wrote a historical sketch of Indian 

 Corn; and Wm. R. Putnam wrote a sound practical es- 

 say upon the cultivation of that important crop. 



In 1850, a useful treatise appears from C. L. Flint on 

 top-dres.sing ; and B. Perley Poore sets forth the impor- 

 tance of Farm accounts and diaries. In 1851, Henry 

 K. Oliver writes brilliantly of Bees and Honey, and 

 flowers ; and to this he adds a glowing paj)er on Poultry 

 in 1854; E. G. Kelley writes of Deep-Tilling in 1854; 

 J. J. H. Gregory of Vegetables in 1856 ; S. P. Fowler 

 of insects injurious to vegetation, the same year ; Wil- 

 son Flagg of the Sources of Fertilization in 1858, and 

 of inquiries in relation to Experimental Farming, the 

 same year; of the Potato Disease in 1859 ; and a Plea 

 for Birds in 1861. Nathan Page, Jr., gives a useful pa- 

 per on Strawberry Culture in 1857 — another on the 

 Hobin in 1858 — and another on Cranberries in 1861. 

 George D, Phippen wrote a pleasing paper on Flowers 

 in 1857 ; and C. N. Tracy another essay on the same 

 subject in 1860; Geo. B. Loring appears with a report 

 on Farms in 1857; again in 1860; again in 1862; on 

 Underdraining in 1859 : an essay on Sheep in 1862 ; 

 root-crops in 1863 ; and Farms in 1863. David Stiles, 

 Jr., presents an admirable paper on Horse-shoeing in 

 1859 ; and Edmund Smith a treatise on Bees in 1863. 

 In 1866, James B. Nichols teaches how to make bread; 

 and Robert Manning teaches how to preserve fruits. 



In this enumeration I have given only a part of the 



