INDEX 



TO THE secretary's REPORT, 



Page 



Agricultural college, committee of visitation appointed, 237 



Agricultural college, how its income and usefulness may 'be increased 216, 217 



Agricultural college, report of committee on, 215 



Agricultural condition of Massachusetts, 14, 15 



Agricultural scholarships and their utility, 216, 217 



Agriculture as a life-work, essay upon 229, 233 



Americal elm, value of the 154, 158, 269 



American horses, characteristics of, 76, 77 



American horses, demand for, in England 94, 95 



American improved Devons, 224 



Aualysis of water on marshes 240 



Analysis of soil on marshes 242,243,244,245 



Anaheim, Cal., communistic society in, 61, 62 



Annual meeting of the Board 214, 233, 282 



Apple-crops in odd years 183, 195, 206, 207, 208 



Apple-orchards, are they profitable? 177, 181, 182, 188, 189, 197 



Application of fertilizers, methods of, 25, 30, 33, 35, 40, 41, 50, 329 



Arabian horses and their characteristics, 76, 77 



Artificial kainit, analysis of, 296 



Ash-trees, value of, 267 



Asparagus, cultivation of, 115, 116 



Atmosphere improved by trees, 145 



Ayrshires and their value, 1'1> 172 



Barn-yard manure, value of, 31, 32 



Beans, experiments with chemical fertilizers in growing 27 



Beech-trees and their value, 142, 143 



Beets, how cultivated, 132 



Black-knot, treatment of, 187 



Bone-meal .as a fertilizer, 332, 333, 334 



Bowlders, definition of, 98 



Bowlders, origin and history of, 96, 101, 103, 104, 113 



Breeding and management of horses, lecture on, 70, 80, 86 



Breed horses not for speed alone, 81 



Brighton fertilizer, analysis of, and facts relating to, 323 



Capital required in horse-breeding 75 



Cattle commissioners, report of, 212, 214 



Cattle husbandry, importance of, 165 



Centennial Exposition, farmers should contribute to the, .... 137, 138, 139, 140 



Chadbourne, Trof. Paul A., lecture by, * 53,60,65 



Character of salt marshes changed by diking 239 



Chemical fertilizers, experiments with in plant-nutrition, . 17,24, 28, 33, 38, 39, 40, 45, 50, 53, 329 



Chemical fertilizers, formula for preparation of, 47, 48 



Chemistry of the stars 97, 98 



