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INDEX. 



Mr. Stone's Address, .... 



Advantages of agricultural societies, 

 Agricultural capabilities of Essex County, 

 Agricultural education, .... 



Abuses of physical nature, — causes and remedy. 

 Act of legislature in relation to agricultural societies, 

 Connexion between agriculture and mechanic arts. 

 Cultivating fruits and flowers, ... 



Choice of profession, - . « . 



Equality of farmers in Essex County, 

 Education of females, .... 

 Fruits for garden culture, ... 



Farmers' meetings, .... 



Farming a safe business, .... 

 Farming congenial to self-culture. 

 Importance of agriculture, ... 



Importance of improving native breed of cattle, 

 Intemperance, slavery and war, adverse to agriculture. 

 Large farms not necessary to success. 

 Manures, including guano and electricity, 

 Orators before the society, .... 

 Officers of the society, .... 

 Patent Office, . . . . - 



Pasturage, ..... 



Potato disease, . . . - 



Planting forest trees, .... 

 Rights of intellectual nature, 

 Statistics of agriculture. 

 Superiority of hides of native cattle, 

 Seeding cornfields, ... 



t'oiling milch cows, ... 



Selecting seed corn, ... 



Story of Ulysses, .... 

 Social and moral influences of agriculture. 

 Schools, improvement of, - 

 Saltonstall, Hon. L. notice of. 

 Transactions first published by Essex Society, 

 Winter Dairy, ... 



Want of the times, ... 



Mr. King's Eulogt of Hon. L. Saltonstall, 



Report on Ploughing with Double Teams, 



Report CD " " Single Teams, 



Report on " " Horse Teams, - 



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