TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



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State Board of Agriculture, 1897, v 



Report of the Secretary, . . . vii 



Minutes of Executive Committee Meetings, 3 



Minutes of Special Meeting of the Board, 9 



Public AVinter Meeting of the Board at Greenfield, .... 13 



Address of Welcome. By A. A. Smith, 13 



Lecture : Growing Timber as a Crop on the Waste and Other 



Cheap Lands of Massachusetts. By J. D. Lyman, . . .22 

 Lecture : The Weather and its Influence on Man and the Produc- 

 tions of the Earth. By J. Warren Smith, 42 



Lecture : Commercial Plant Food. By Prof. W. H. Jordan, . . 53 

 Lecture : The Futiu'e of New England Agriculture. By Geo. W. 



Atherton, 92 



Scores of Butter Exhibit at Greenfield, 130 



Lectixre : The Dairy Interests of the United States. By Henry E. 



Alvord, ... 136 



Lecture : Use of Pure Cultures in Butter-making. By Prof. F. S. 



Cooley, 169 



Lecture : Food Value of Dairy Products, By Geo. M. Whitaker, . 179 



Lecture : Private Dairying. By C. B. Lyman, .... 185 

 Lecture : Creamery Experience. By D. B. Dunham, . . .191 



Lecture : Making Milk for Private Trade. By N. I. Bowditch, . 194 



Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Board, 205 



Report of Examining Committee of the Agricultural College, . 215 

 Report of Committee on Agricultural Societies, .... 224 

 Essay : Cold Storage for Farm Products. By Geo. L. Clemenee, . 226 

 Essay : The Farmer's Opportunity. By C. B. Lyman, . . . 237 

 Essay : Tlie Grass Crop. By Dr. C. A. Goessmann, . . . 249 

 Essay : The Army Worm. By A. H. Kirkland, M.S., . . .264 

 Essay: The Crow in Massachusetts. By E. H. Forbush, . . 275 

 Essay : The Babcock Milk Tester, etc. By Geo. M. AVhitaker, . 297 

 Essay: Concentrated Feed Stuffs. By J. B. Lindsey, Ph.D., . . 307 

 Report of Meetings of the Massachusetts Fruit Growers' Associa- 

 tion. By Prof S. T. Maynard, 328 



Report on Extermination of the Gypsy Moth (with appendix), . 349 



Sixth Annual Report of Dairy Bureau, 435 



Returns of the Societies, 457 



Agricultural Directory, 487 



Report on National Farmers' Congress at Indianapolis, Ind., . . 505 



Report of Board of Cattle Commissioners, 519 



Index, 595 



