INDEX TO SECRETARY'S REPORT. 139 



Delegates to county societies, assignment of, 352. 

 Dog-law, need for amendment of the, 295, 296. 

 Dogs, destruction of sheep by, 294, 296. 



laws in relation to damage done by, 167, 168. 

 regulating the killing of, 168, 169, 295, 296. 

 Drainage, importance of, 118, 119. 



of water in the farm, laws relating to, 173. 

 Drains, made of tiles, value of, 119, 120. 



stone, of little value, 119. 

 Dried blood, analysis and value of, as a fertilizer, 326. 



Elements in soils essential to plant-growth, 16, 235, 244, 258. 



Fall ploughing, utility of, 81-83. 

 Farmers, legal rights and duties of, 147, 179. 



Farmers' club, early establishment of one in Plymouth County, 9. 

 institutes, number of, in Massachusetts, 145, 146. 



requirements of the Board in relation to, 7, 358. 

 Farm, boundaries of a, defined, 149. 



how to buy a, 147. 



laws relating to trespass upon the, 175, 176. 



the tide turning towards the, 122. 



why young people left the, 122. 



what a deed of a, conveys, 151. 



fences, laws relating to, 160. 



help, how to contract for, 154. 



importance of having it interested in the farm, 121. 



products, importance of marketing in the best shape, 52, 53. 

 Farming, necessity for management in, 51, 121, 133. 

 profits of, 121, 123, 125, 133. 

 settled facts in, 51. 

 Farms bouuding on the seashore, provisions concerning, 150. 

 Fastening of animals, difference in the, 185, 186. 

 Fat, facts in relation to the secretion of, 195, 196. 

 Feeding farm-stock, necessity for regularity in, 55. 

 Fertilizers, annual report of the State chemist on, 310, 328. 



value and application of, 5, 17, 43, 57, 63, 65, 67, 69, 75, 76, 80, 83, 87, 

 116, 117, 128, 129, 141-143, 310, 320, 326, 328. 

 Fires, laws providing liabilities for, 171, 172. 



liabilities of railroads for, 172. 

 First impregnation, influence of, on progeny, 206. 

 Fisher, Dr. Jabez, lecture by, iipon the war with insects, 207, 230, 

 Fishing on the farm, to whom it belongs, 176. 

 Fish-pomace, analysis and value of, as a fertilizer, 328. 

 Flint, Charles L., lecture by, on the principles of breeding, 185-207. 

 Flower, structure of the, 2G3. 

 Fodder-corn, utility of raising, 54. 

 Fowls, laws relating to trespass by, 165. 

 Fruits for sandy soils, 239. 



Gas-lime, analysis and value of, as a fertilizer, 320. 

 Glanders or farcy, occurrence of, in Massachusetts, 288, 289. 

 Goessmann, Professor C. A., report by, on commercial fertilizers, 310-348. 



improvement of salt-marshes, 353ir 

 Goodale, Professor George L., lecture by, on recent researches in regard to 



seeds, 262, 286. 

 Grape-vine, insects attacking the, 214, 218. 



