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Climate influenced by forests 146, 150, 166, 250, 253, 256 



Colorado potato-beetles, destruction of, 131, 207 



Color of Devon cattle 221 



Color of the foliage of trees changed in autumn 155 



Conditions of plant-growth 18,19,24,33 



Cooperation among farmers advisable 53, 60, 65 



Corn.growJng, experiments in, with commercial fertilizers, 25, 28, 29, 30, 38, 39, 40, 45, 50, 53 



Corn, yield of, to the acre, 30, 34, 38, 50, 53 



Corn-stover, value of, for feeding stock, 38 



Cost of chemical manures 32, 33, 46, 47, 48, 342 



Cost of raising a bushel of corn, 30, 32, 33, 35, 38, 50, 52 



Cotton-seed hulls, analysis of, . 302 



Cow, intelligence of the 288, 289 



Crude carnallite, analysis of, 301 



Deciduous trees, and their value 159 



Delegates, assignment of, for 1876, 282, 283 



Delegates, new, credentials of, 233 



Destruction of forests, extent of, 141,144,146,263,264 



Devon cattle, essay upon, 219, 224, 228 



Devon cattle for beef, 224, 226 



Devon cattle for dairy purposes 227 



Devon cattle, history of, 220 



Dog, intelligence of the, 290, 291 



Dried blood as a fertilizer 326 



Elements essential to plant-growth 20, 21, 38, 39, 40, 50, 53 



Elm-trees, and their value, 154, 158, 269, 271 



Emerson, Geo. B., lecture by 140, 146, 151 



English improved Devons, 221 



Essays, subjects for, for 1876, 344 



Essex County, farming in 6, 10, 14, 15 



European elms, and their value, 152, 154, 157, 271, 272 



Evergreen trees, value of, 149, 158, 160, 262, 263, 274 



Exhibitions of societies in 1876, times for holding, 249 



Experiments in feeding plants, lecture on 17, 20, 24, 28, 30, 33 



Fairs of the societies, times for holding, in 1876 249 



Fertilizers, experiments with, in plant-nutrition, . 17, 20, 24, 28, 30, 38, 45, 50, 53, 311, 329 



Fertilizers, report of state chemist on, 293,343 



Fish guano, sale and value of, 312, 313, 314, 315, 316, 320 



Formulas for chemical fertilizers, 47, 48 



Forests, influence of, on the rainfall, 146, 147, 150, 151, 166, 250, 251 



Forests, lecture on the restoration of, 140, 146, 151 



Forest schools in Europe 148 



Forest-trees, and their cultivation, . . 140, 145, 151, 157, 160, 164, 168, 218, 250, 270, 283 



Fruit-culture profitable, 177, 185 



Fruits, cultivation of, discussion on 176, 177, 190, 201, 211 



Fruits, methods for the improvement of, 234, 237 



Functions of roots, 42, 43, 156, 161 



Glaciers, and their action, 105, 106, 107 



Goessmann, Prof. C. A., report on fertilizers by, 293, 330, 343 



Goessmann, Prof. C. A., report on salt marshes by, 238, 240, 248 



Goodale, H. S., essay by, 219, 233 



Grass-growing, experiments with chemical fertilizers in, 27, 48 



Green Harbor marshes 5, 238, 240, 248 



Guano, analyses of, and facts relating to, . . , . 303, 305, 306, 309, 310, 330, 331, 336 

 Gypsum, value of, as a fertilizer 124, 125, 126 



