A Massachusetts agricultural record from 1891, this volume distills a year’s work at the state experiment station.
It covers dairy feeding trials, field experiments, and the station’s chemical laboratory activities, painting a picture of early agricultural science in action.
The book describes feeding experiments with milch cows, steers, lambs, and pigs, plus field work on grasses, fodder crops, and garden staples. It also chronicles the development of the vegetation house and the operation of a new barn to improve experimental work, along with notes on plant diseases and practical farm management.
What you’ll experience
- Detailed accounts of feeding trials comparing linseed meals, gluten meal, cotton-seed meal, and brewers’ grain, with emphasis on milk yield and feed cost
- Reports on field experiments with grasses, pasture trials, and garden crops, including harvests and yields
- Insights into laboratory work, fertilizer analyses, water analyses, and other chemical observations supporting farm practices
- Historical context about station infrastructure, staff, and the progression of year-by-year agricultural research
Ideal for readers of agricultural history, early scientific farming, and archival farm science.