162 INDEX TO SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



Long, John D., Governor, remarks of, before State Board of Agriculture, 

 Soutbborougli, 75-77. 



Manufacture and preservation of fertilizing material, 152. 

 Manurial values, economy of chemistry in, 153. 

 Marsh-lands reclaimed, effect of drought on, 195. 



it pays to reclaim them, 196. 

 Meeting, annual. State Board of Agriculture, 194. 



order governing farmers' insti- 

 tutes, 5. 

 special. State Board of Agriculture, Ifi. 

 public, State Board of Agriculture, Southborough, 18-188. 

 Milk, amount of, consumed, middlemen who live upon the profits of, 9. 



analysis of, 59. 

 Mineral phosphates, analysis of, 227. 



Nitrogen, percentage of, in ensilage, 159. 



Norway maple-trees, remarks of Mr. Hadwen on, 51. 



Nurserymen should pay more attention to American trees, 28. 



Old bouses made new, 135-139. 



Oleomargarine refuse fertilizer, analysis of, 224. 



Ornamental trees, paper on, by John Robinson of Salem, 23-43. 



Peters, Henry H., late of Southborough, tribute to the memory of, 21. 

 Petition of State Board of Agriculture to Legislature, relating to State bounty 



to agricultural societies, 203. 

 Petition of State Board of Agriculture to Legislature for an experimental 



station, 21G. 

 Peruvian guano guaranteed, analysis of, 227. 

 Planting of trees, black walnut, butternut, white pine, white ash, and hickory, 



recommended, 38. 

 Planting of corn, Sfi-SS. 

 Ploughing, raising of corn, 83. 

 Pleuro-pneumonia in cattle, 189. 

 Poultry, 12. 

 Potatoes, protection of, from bugs, 13. 



cultivation of, paper on, by Benjamin P. Ware, 205. ■ 

 the crop of, an uncertain one, 208. 

 Potash compounds, analysis of, 221. 

 Profits of tree-culture, 45. 



Report of cattle commissioners, 188. 



delegates to agricultural fairs, 195. 



C. A. Goessmann, on improvement of salt-marshes, 195. 



board of overseers of Agricultural College, 197. 



committee of Agricultural College, 201. 



on credentials of Board of Agriculture, 203. 

 Riverside superpliosphate, analysis of, 245. 

 Root-crops r. silos, 13. 



Robinson, Jolm, of Salem, paper by, on ornamental trees, 23-43. 

 Rules for successful raising of corn, 94. 



amended, State Board of Agriculture, 245. 



Salting of butter, 73. 



Salt-marshes, improvement of, by C. A. Goessmann, 195. 



Seed-corn, importance of belection of, 80-83. 



