ABSTRACT. 



MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING AGRICUL- 

 TURE. 



The President and Secretary of the Massachusetts Society 

 for Promoting Agriculture, in making the annual return to the 

 Secretary of the Commonwealth, required by the act of 1847, 

 chap. 69, can only pursue the same "course of statements which 

 they have heretofore returned, and which have appeared in the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural Statistics. 



In the autumn of 1845, the trustees imported stock of the 

 highest character in Europe as milking stock. Their efforts 

 since have been concentrated to promote this object alone, and 

 the only reports made, have been made by the committee en- 

 trusted with the care of this stock. 



In the last report of this committee to the trustees, is incor- 

 porated a report to them by Mr. Phinney, (one of the board of 

 trustees to whom the stock and their management is confided,) 

 with a design to impress upon the farmers the great and certain 

 advantage resulting from the careful breeding of a pure stock. 



JOHN C. GRAY, 

 President of the Mass. Soc. for Prom. Ag. 



BEN J. GUILD, Secretary. 

 BosTONj January 1, 1849. 



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