IXDEX TO SECRETARY'S RERORT. 



Absorption of atmospheric fertilizers, 126. 

 Agricultural fairs, report of delegates to, 195. 



Agricultural College protectiug the farmer in the investment of fertilizers, 20. 

 report of board of overseers of, 197. 

 on the farm of, 198. 

 on horticultural department of, 199. 

 on financial condition of, 200. 

 of committee of, 201. 

 Air, exclusion of, in silos, 175. 



Amended rules of iState Board of Agriculture, 245. 

 Americus ammoniatcd bone superphosphate, analysis of, 238. 

 Ammoniated XX superphosphate, analysis of, 236. 

 bone superphosphate, analysis of, 234. 

 superphosphates, analysis of, 232. 

 Animal fertilizers, 231. 



Analj'sis of waste products from bone and meat, 230. 

 oleomargarine refuse fertilizer, 224. 

 potash compounds, 221. 

 Analytical results, loss in hay by exposure, 168. 



demonstrations, corn ensilage, 164-167. 

 Annual meeting of State Board of Agriculture, 194. 



report of cattle commissioners, 188. 

 Apples, large crop of, in 1880, 14. 

 their value as food, 14, 15. 



from trees diseased, do they keep as well ? 53, 54. 

 Appendix to John Robinson's essay on trees, 39-43. 

 Appointment of delegates, 215. 

 Art, love of, in America, 132. 

 Ayrshire cattle, their importation in 1857, 21. 



Barren lands jilanted with native trees, 44. 



Barn drainage, 153. 



Barns, building of, 153. 



Basket-willow, its cultivation, 210. 



Beet-roots, tops of, in silos, analysis of, 1G2. 



Black-grass ensilage, 177. 



Bowker's kitchen-garden fertilizers, analysis of, 233. 



Bone fertilizers, analysis of, 228. 



Board of Agriculture, petition by, to Legislature for experimental station, 216. 



asking discretionary power 

 in the payment of State 

 bounty to societies, 203. 



Board of overseers of Agricultural College, report of, 197. 



Brown hay, 183. 



Bradley's sea-fowl fertilizer, analysis of, 240. 



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