INDEX TO SECRETARY'S REPORT. 101 



Feed, preservation of, in silos by, 157-188. 

 Fermentation in silos, loss of substance by, 158. 



of green crops can be reduced, but not checked, 171. 

 is due to living organism, 175. 

 Fodder, green-corn, in silos, loss of valuable organic constituents of, 166. 

 crops, drying of, does not affect digestibility, 1G9. 

 custom of using it green, G. 

 Fodder-corn, feeding, 180. 



value of, {)2-99. 

 Financial condition of Agricultural College, 200. 

 Fish-scraps, analysis of, 225. 

 Flint, C. L., resignation of, as secretary. 



ex-secretary, remarks complimentary to, 22. 

 Flour of bones, analysis of, 229. 

 French roof, modern, a fashion having nothing to recommend it, 149. 



Gardening statistics, 15. 



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



Gas, carbonic acid, in silos, 176. 



Glass in house, use plenty of, to let in the sunlight, 146. 



Glanders, 181). 



Goessmann, C. A., address by, on silos, 155-188. 



report by, on the salt-marshes in Marshfield, 195. 

 commercial fertilizers, 217. 

 Green-corn fodder, table of extremes of variations iu, 166. 

 Green crop in silos, percentage of, 1G5. 



crops, fermentation of, can be reduced, but not checked, 171. 

 food, various substances preserved as, 158. 

 in silos, loss of, by fermentation, 159. 

 Grass in silos, analysis of, 161. 

 Ground fish, analysis of, 226. 



bones, analysis of, 228. 

 Guy's German plant-food for flowers, analysis of, 239. 

 Gypsum, analysis of, 223. 



Hay, amount of, cut in 1875, crop of 1880, 6. 



loss of, by exposure to rain, 168. 

 Harvesting of corn, 92. 



Hersey, Edmund, paper by, on basket-willow, 210. 

 Houses of brick in the country, 145. 



Home-life, children should be bred in daily familiarity with the best thin{cs in 

 the house in, 147. 



use the best room every day in, 147. 



let the kitchen be sunny and cheerful in, 147. 



parlors with some a sole title to respectability in, 148. 

 House-painting, nature a guide to, 150. 

 House and barn drainage, 153. 

 Horse with glanders, 189. 



Horticultural department of Agricultural College, 199. 

 Hyde, J. F. C, remarks by, on the subject of trees, 44-48. 



Institutes, farmers', order of State Board of Agriculture, 1878, governing, 5. 



Kelp illustrative of ensilage, 173. 



Lime, waste from beet-sugar, 224. 

 Liquid from lime-vats, analysis of, 231. 



