ABSTRACT. 



MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY EOR PROMOTING AGRI- 

 CULTURE. 



The return of the doings of this Society consists of the follow- 

 ing reports, and extracts from reports, which are published 

 entire. 



The undersigned, as Recording Secretary of the Massachu- 

 setts Society for promoting Agriculture, respectfully reports : 



That, in compliance with the requisitions of the Statute of 

 March 7, 1845, chapter 3d, he herewith returns to the Secretary 

 of the Commonwealth those reports made to the Trustees of said 

 Society, which will exhibit to the Government the transactions 

 of the Society for the past year, and the prospective benefit 

 which the agricultural community may derive from their labors. 

 In the report of last year, it was stated that the Trustees had, 

 as far as they were able, accomplished what they had intended, 

 in offering many and large premiums, to stimulate inquiry and 

 elicit information on a variety of subjects in which farmers were 

 interested. They, therefore, determined to concentrate their 

 efforts upon one object — that of improving, by importation, the 

 breed of cattle, and most especially the milch Cows of the Com- 

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