INDEX TO SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



Agricultural chemistry, early discoveries in, 44, 45. 

 Agriculture, changes accomplished in, by science, 44, 46. 

 splendid results from the State's aid to, 144. 

 Apple-tree, insects attacking the, 216. 

 Ashes, leached or unleaehed, value of, 17, 47, 116. 

 Asparagus, cultivation and growth of, 22, 23, 28, 233. 

 how to select seed of, 29. 



Barnyard-manure, value of, 17, 43, 57, 63, 76, 117. 



Basket-willows, methods of cultivation of, 236, 237. 



Bat-guano, analysis and A'alue of, 327. 



Beef, how to breed for, 197. 



Bennett, Judge, lecture by, on the rights and duties of farmers, 147-179. 



Board of agriculture, operations and influence of the, 358. 



Borers, habits of the, 217. 



Boundaries of farms defined, 149. 



Breeding, principles of, 37, 38, 185, 200, 207. 



Buying and selling a farm, legal facts in, 148. 



Canker-worms, traps for, 241. 



Cattle commissioners, annual report of, 287, 290. 



Cattle, impounding of, laws on, 163. 



liabilities of owners for damages done by, 165. 



stray, liabilities of owners of, 160. 

 Chemistry, influence of, on agriculture, 44, 46, 60, 79, 80. 



of plants, 50, 244, 247. 

 Chili saltpetre, analysis and value of, as a fertilizer, 322, 323. 

 Clark, "William S., lecture by, on the agriculture of Japan, 90, 100, 113. 

 Clover, use and value of, as a fodder, 256. 

 Codling-moth, habits of the, 224. 

 Colorado potato-beetle, habits of the, 208. 



how to destroy the, 208, 211. 

 Concentrated fertilizers, advisability of applying, in auramn, 66, 80, 81. 

 Commercial fertilizers, value and application of, 5, 17, 43, 57, 63, 65, 67, 69, 75, 



76, 80, 83, 87, 116, 128, 129, 141-143, 310, 320, 326, 328. 

 Commercial fertilizers, laws regulating the sale of, 311, 312. 



market-prices and value of, 314, 315. 

 Cows, milch, feeding and management of, 56. 

 Cross-breeding, exj^ediency of, 200. 

 Curculio, habits of the, 223. 



Dairy cows, how to breed, 192. 



peculiarities of, 191. 

 Deed of a farm, what is conveyed by, 151. 

 Deeds should always be recorded, 148, 183. 

 have the grantor's seal, 148. 



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