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Mowing-machines, varieties and improvements in, 8, 9 89 



Mushrooms, importance of culture of, 61 



Origin of species, discussion on, 103, 104, 107 



Our pastures deteriorating, 202 



Packard, A. S., report by, 237, 265 



Pastures should be improved, 25, 26, 31, 38, 212, 213 



Pedigree, meaning of, 86, 111 



Physiology in its infancy, 82, 83, 100, 305 



Plants, characteristics of, .53 



Plants, distribution of, 57 



Power of parents to transmit certain qualities, 75, 79, 81, 87, 102, 104, 113, 114, 117, 158 

 Practical questions of law relating to ftirm property, lecture on, . . 124, 130, 143 

 Propagation, law of, defined, 87 



Quality of structure to be kept in view in breeding, 92, 93 



Relative value of farming, essay on, 280, 287 



Report of examining committee to Mass. Agricultural College, . . . 276, 279 



Right of way on o-«-ner's lands, 136, 137, 138 



Root, Thomas P., addi-ess by, 12, 17 



Rust on grains, character of, 60 



Sale of personal property, titles in, 140,141 



Seeding down grass-lands 25, 201 



ShorthoiTis, breeding of, 116 



Slade, Prof. D. D., lecture by 145, 165 



Snails injurious to the sti-awberrj', 249 



Soils for grass-lands 200, 201, 209 



Steam-ploughs, their cost and value 268, 269, 270, 272 



Stock raising in New England, 77, 78, 207 



Stockbridge, Levi, essay by, 265, 275 



Stockbridge, Levi, lecture by, 195, 200, 205 



Stone drains, utility of, 218 



Stone walls a nuisance, 26 



Strawben-y, insects injuiious to, 240 



Structure and gi-owth of domesticated animals, lecture on, .... 291 



Sugar beet, importance of culture of, 72,73 



Surface-water, control of, by land owners, 130, 132 



Superphosphates, unreliability of, in the market, 193 



Thoroughbred, meaning of, 86 



Time required to establish an agricultural fact, 182, 183 



Tobacco-gi-Qwing and its effect on the soil, 220 



Trees adapted to planting in New England 64, 65 



Use of steam on the farm, essay on 265, 270, 275 



Value of white-clover 23, 40, 123 



Variety of grass-seeds should be used in seeding down grass-lands, . . 25, 209 

 Vegetable physiology, observations on, 100 



"Ward, A. H., lecture by, 165, 170, 177 



"Water, law relating to flo\ving 130, 132, 133 



"Whey, value of, 283 



Winter-feed of cows, 27, 40, 46, 48 



