Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Seventeenth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture: With an Appendix Containing Reports of Delegates Appointed to Visit the County Exhibitions, and Also Returns of the Finances of the Agricultural Societies for 1869
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the Common wealth of Massachusetts. The past year furnishes a striking illustration of the depend? Ence of the farmer upon the vicissitudes of the season. A Spring of more than usual moisture started vegetation into a. Vigorous and rapid growth, very favorable to the hay and other early crops. The barns were well stored, and had it not been for the gales of September which visited some sections of the State with disastrous violence, and the floods of October more general in their destruction, it would have been a year of unusual prosperity. Still, notwithstanding these drawbacks the general record of the year is one upon which we may dwell with satisfaction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
