160 INDEX TO SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



Decline of sheep-husbandry in the State, 11. 



Dew, effect of, on hay-crop, 184. 



Dehjgates, appointment of, 21o. 



Drought, its effect upon reclaiuied marsh-lands, 193. 



Economy in cultivation of corn, 11. 



planting native trees, 30. 

 Ensilage, 7. 



composition and feeding value of, 157-188. 



scientific inquiry concerning, 157. 



vafious substances preserved as, 158. 



treatment of, 158. 



in dry pit, exclusion of air necessary, 158. 



percentage of nitrogen in, 150. 



nutritive loss of, by leakage, 186. 



clover, IGO. 



esparsette, analysis of, IGO. 



corn, treatment and analysis of, 164. 



black-grass, 177. 



corn-fodder, 178. 



sugar in plants to be considered, 179. 



will assist in saving crops, 180. 



feeding of, effect of, upon domestic animals, 188. 

 Esparsette ensilage, analysis of, 160. 

 Exhibitions, annual, of societies, 5. 



Experiment of changing from whole to cut corn-fodder, 122-124. 

 Experiments in potato-culture, 205. 



made in other countries, their value, 246-248. 

 Experimental stations in foreign countries, 247. 



Fairs, annual, of the societies, 5. 



Farmers' institutes, value of, as a method of agricultural education, 5. 



Farm architecture, lecture by E. C. Gardner on, 131-155. 



old and new, 134. 



old mouldings should be preserved in, 139. 



old fire-places should be preserved in, 140. 



free ventilation under first floor in, 141. 



foundations of hard lirick in, 142. 



should be tlie type of stability, 144. 



internal arrangements of, 140. 



public taste in, educated in the wrong way, 149. 



French roof not to be desired in, 149. 



nature a guide to house-painting in, 150. 



the barn in, its fourfoUl use, 152. 

 Farm-buildings are not up to the standard, 132. 

 Farm-life, what it ought to be, 134. 

 Farmyards, their unsightly condition, 152. 

 Farmhouses of the future, 154. 

 Farm, Agricultural College, 198. 

 Fertilizing, raising of corn, 84-80. 



Fertilizers, manufacture and preservation of, in barns, 152. 

 inspectors' report on, 217-244. 

 market-price of, in New York and Boston, 219. 

 bone, analysis of, 228. 

 Feeding of corn-fodder, 118-124, 180. 

 question of cheap, 181. 

 of domestic animals, effect of ensilage, 188, 



