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 for storage Pom., 87, 88, 92 



— keeping quality of 296 



— marketing of Pom., 82 



— selection of varieties of, for planting Pom., 100 



— shipping of, in winter Pom., 81 



— sorting and packing of, for market Pom., TJt 



— sweating of Pom., 90, 91 



— thinning of 295 



— varieties of, recommended for home use 293 



Ashes as a Fertilizer 18 



— for fruit culture 284, 288 



Asters, insects infesting 207 



Ayrshire Cows for Dairy Purposes 60 



Bacteria •. 50 



— of milk 50,157 



how diminished in number 51, 157 



increase of, by carelessness in handling 158 



during transportation 160 



— of soils 19, 93 



Baldwin Apple, superiority of the Pom., 94 



Baltimore Oriole, food of 264 



Banded Leaf-roller 302 



Barn Sanitation 23, 27 



Barrels for Apples Pom., 115 



size of Pom., 1 14 



Bay State Apple Pom., 137 



Ben Davis Apple Pom., 173 



Beurre Bosc Pear Pom., 136 



Bird Notes by State Entomologist 263 



Birds, killing of, by cats Pom., 68 



— voracity of Pom., 62 



Bitter Rot in Apples 305 



Black and White Creeping Warbler Pom., 62 



Black-throated Green Warbler an Insect Destroyer Pom., 64 



Bordeaux Mixture and Paris Green, formula for mixing 306 



—for apple trees 305, Pom., 56 



Bounties to Agricultural Societies 10 



Boxes for Apples Pom.,l 18 



Bran as a Dairy Food 74 



Brewers' Grains 35 



Brown Creeper an Insect-eating Bird Pom., 67 



Brown-tail Moth, appropriations and expenditures of towns for 



destruction of 225 



— fungous work with 224 



— history of the 221 



— in Maine 218 



— legislation in reference to 219, 228 



