3425- FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Ohio State Board of Agriculture, WITH AN ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES: TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF OHIO, FOR THE YEAR 1859. COLUMBUS: RICHARD NEVINS, STATE PRINTER. 1860. MEMBERS OF THE OHIO STATE BOARD FOR 1859. NORTON S. TOWNSHEND, President, Avon, Lorain Co. ALEX. WADDLE, South Charleston, Clark Co. LA Q. RAWSON, Fremont, Sandusky Co. C. W. POTWIN, Zanesville, Muskingum Co. JOHN H. KLIPPART, Corresponding Secretary, Columbus, O. N, S. TOWNSHEND, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. C. W. POTWIN, JOHN REBER. NOTICE. THE present volume contains the proceedings of the State Board more in detail than any of the previous volumes of the Second Series." The reports from county societies are rather more full than in the preceding two reports. Several societies failed to make returns in time, and could not be inserted in their regular place in the series, and are therefore inserted at the close of the volume. There is no Ohio publication in existence containing as complete a catalogue of the indigenous plants of the State as this volume; and as almost every State agricultural society has published a catalogue of indigenous plants, it was deemed proper to insert a list of the flora of Ohio. It is a matter of regret that the catalogue is not free from typographical errors, and in many parts a systematic error prevails with respect to capital letters commencing the specific name; and in cases where the species was named after a noun proper, the usual capital letter in some instances has been omitted. The short account of alimentary plants by Prof. Von Herr was not considered inappropriate. The past year (1859) having been a disastrous one to the agriculturist in many portions of the State, from the failure of crops caused by the June frost, induced an investigation of the "effects of the various degrees of temperature upon the germination of plants" and "the plant and the warmth of the soil," incidentally also of the "effects of warmth and frost upon plants. These essays undoubtedly will be fully appreciated by intelligent practical agriculturists. The article on Manuring" is from the pen of one of the most able chemists of England, who has devoted himself to applying science to agriculture." As the contagious Pleuro-Pneumonia, or Massachusetts Cattle Disease, may unfortunately visit Ohio, it was deemed proper to present as complete an essay on this subject as the data at command would admit of. It necessarily occupies more space than was originally intended, but at the same time it embodies a series of facts not found in so comprehensive a form in any other publication. The European history of the disease was compiled from a series of French and German |