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Scoville tomato described 241 



Scrub cattle, loss in raising 112 



Secretary's accounts, Agricultural College vi 



Seedling volunteers in Agricultural College aboretum 251 



Seeds, distribution of by birds _ 251 



premiums on at State Fair 282 



Shade, evil of excessive about houses 63 



Shorthorns and Herefords, compared. 114 



premiums on at State Fair 263 



Sheep for restoring exhausted soils 74 



premiums on at State Fair. _ 272 



value of on the farm, by Hon. Wm. Ball 40 



Shops at Agricultural College, needs for coming two years li 



picture of building _ ._ xlviii 



report of Superintendent _ xlviii 



work in . 1 



for m.anual training, marketable products from. lix 



Sinclair, Geo., paper on the dairy 117 



Size of Michigan, a teacher's idea of 207 



drain tile, paper by Prof. R. C. Carpenter 171 



Sleep of leaves, by Prof. W. J. Beal 80 



Small schools, advantages of 203 



Snook, J. J., paper— Can the average farm be made profitable? 41 



Social rank of farmers, paper by Hon. M. D. Campbell 188 



remarks by Robt. Alward 38 



Soil exhaustion, paper by H. A. Ladd 73 



Soluble phosphoric acid in commercial fertilizers 249 



Sources of Nitrogen in plants, paper by Dr. R. C. Kedzie 93 



Souring of clover plowed under 91 



Southdown sheep, premiums at State Fair 273 



Special appropriation account, expenditures at Agricultural College viii 



receipts at Agr'l College vi 



statement for 1885-6 xvi 



since foundation of Agricultural College xv 



Spraying apple trees with poison 135 



Squash bugs and kerosene xxxix 



Standard of admission at Agricultural College xvii 



Standing committees of State Agricultural Society 255 



Starving animals fat, loss in attempting 115 



State Agricultural Society, annual report of 254 



executive conamittee 354 



meeting 255 



superintendents - - 255 



Ex-Presidents of 254 



meeting of locating committee T 257 



minutes of fair meetings 258 



officers 254 



premium list - - 263 



standing committees 355 



State Board of Agriculture, members of. - - - iv 



State Fair, botanical exhibit at. - xliii 



premium list -- 263 



time limit for entries - - 358 



Statement of account with special appropriations for '85-'86 xvi 



Steam dredge for ditching swamps 167 



works at Agricultural College, report on Hi 



Steaming of clover hay 92 



Sterling, .1. C, Election as Sec'y State Agr'l Society 260 



