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Thirty-third Annual Report of the Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture, with returns of the finances of the agricultural societies for., 1885

eng

index present

non fiction

Thirty-third Annual Report of the Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture

with returns of the finances of the agricultural societies for.

Annual Report -- Public Meeting of the Board at Framingham: Opening address -- Potato culture -- Errors in estimating the value of manures -- Tuberculosis in cattle -- The garden fence -- On rotation of crops -- Corn culture -- Some injurious insects of Massachusetts -- Guernsey cattle in America -- Laws relating to public and private ways -- Artificial rearing of poultry; Annual meeting of the Board: Annual report; Finances of the Societies -- Officers of the Societies; Appendix: Thirteenth annual report on commercial fertilizers -- Some additional notes upon trees and tree planting in Massachusetts -- Protection of trees against insects --Farm life -- Raising calves -- Massachusetts agricultural college -- Report of the cattle commsisioners -- Report on bulls -- Butter -- Annual address at Hoosac Valley fair -- Lectures delivered before the Hingham Agricultural and Horticultural Society: Social and political life of the farmer -- Chemistry on the farm -- The climate and horticulture of New England -- The propagation of trees and shrubs from seed -- Heating greenhouses -- A comparison of manures for the garden and orchard -- Index