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267 



Report on Working Oxen and Steers, .... Page 161 



'•' " Breeding Stock, ....... 163 



Statements respecting particular Cows, . . . 164 



Report on Grain and Vegetable Crops, ..... 167 



Statement of a crop of Carrots, .... 168 



" " " " " Corn, ..... 169 



James M. Bishop's statement respecting his Farm, . . . 170 



Report on Domestic Manufactures, ..... 174 



Returns of the HiMPDEN Agricultural Society, .... 175 



Report on Reclaimed Swamps and Grain and Root Crops, . . 178 



Returns of the Barnstable County Agricultural Society, . . 180 



Statements respecting Improved Wet Meadows, , . 180 



Report on Produce, ........ 183 



Statements respecting crops of Corn, .... 183 



" " a crop of Potatoes, . . . 184 



Report and statements respecting Cranberries, .... 185 



Abstract of Premiums offered by Agricultural Societies, in 1848, . . 186 



" " " awarded by " " " " . . 188 



Selections from an address by Josiah Newhall, Esq., before the Essex; 



Agricultural Society, " How to make farming profitable," . . 191 



Selections from an address, by Hon. John C. Gray, before the Middlesex 

 Society, " The difficulties and obstacles to be encountered in Agricul- 

 ture," ......... 198 



Selections from an address, by Hon. A. H. Bullock, before the Worcester 

 County Agricultural Society, "The progress of Industry, and the har- 

 mony of Labor," ........ 208 



Selections from an address, by Hon. William H. Wood, before the 

 Plymouth County Agricultural Society, "Intellectual labor essential to 



success in Agriculture," ....... 214 



Address by Professor John P. Norton, before the Agricultural Societies of 

 Berkshire and Hampshire Counties, " The structure, the physical prop- 

 erties, and the chemical composition of the Soil," . . . 221 



Remarks by J. E. Teschemacher, Esq., before the Legislative Agricul- 

 tural Society, ........ 243 



Remarks by Hon. M. P. Wilder, before the same Society, . . .251 



Remarks, on the subject of Fruit and Fruit Trees, made at a meeting of 



the same Society, by different gentlemen, .... 257 



