142 INDEX TO SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



Seeds, absorption of oxygen by, during germination, 267. 



germination of, 243, 262. 



laws regulating the sale of, 178. 



importance of securing the best, 18, 26, 27, 37, 39. 



recent researches in regard to, 262, 286. 



temperature requisite for germination of, 267. 



vitality of, 269, 271, 272. 



soundness of, 272, 273. 



germination of, accelerated by chemical means, 274, 275. 



how to test samples of, 276, 277. 



deceptions practised by dealers in selling, 283. 

 Sex of offspring varies with the age of parents, 203. 

 Self-fertilization of plants abhorrent, 34, 35. 

 Sheep, destruction of, by dogs, 6, 294-296. 



diseases of, 302. 



early introduction of, in Massachusetts, 292. 



fences for, 301. 



foot-rot among, character and treatment of, 303. 



how to fatten, 298, 306, 307. 



law, colonial, 307, 308. 



scab among, character and treatmej^t of, 303, 



summer treatment of, 300. 



ticks upon, treatment of, 303. 



winter treatment of, 298. 



wools, statistics in relation to, 304. 

 Sheei)-husbandry in Massachusetts, report on, by James S. Grinnell, 291-308. 



profits of, 304-306. 

 Sheep-manure, value of, 297. 

 Soils, chemistry of, 68, 70, 74, 241. 



required for different crops, 15. • 



exhaustion of, 241, 251, 258. 

 Specialties in farming, importance of following, 133-135, 137. 

 Squashes, cultivation and yield of, 25. 

 Squash-vines^ insects that attack, 26. 

 Stock, feeding and management of, 55, 56. 



Stockbriilge fertilizers, opinions concerning the value of, 116, 127, 129, 131. 

 Stockbridge, Professor Levi, lecture by, on exhaustion of soUs, 241-255. 

 Stone drains of little value, 119. 

 Sulphate of ammonia, analysis and value of, 325. 

 Surface-water, rights and liabilities of farmers in, 174. 



Timothy-grass, cause of rust on, 233. 



Top-dressing of manures, times and systems for, 66, 75, 80, 87, 139. 



Trees, rights of adjacent land-owners to, 177, ISO. 



Trespass on the farm, laws relating to, 168, 175. 



Washing-away of manures, 74, 75, 83, 84, 116, 128, 141, 144. 

 "Water, necessity of, in plant-growth, 252, 253. 



flowing of, rights and liabilities of land-owners in, 181. 

 Water, rights of land-owners in, laws relating to, 173. 

 Way over the farm, how to acquire the right of, 158, 175, 183. 

 Wheat-growing sections, change of, 258, 260. 

 Willows for basket-making, methods of cultivation of, 236, 237. 



soils for growing, 236. 

 Wool-waste, analysis and value of, as a fertilizer, 326. 



