INDEX 



TO THE SECRETAEY'S REPORT, 



Page 



Abortion in cows, 291 , 320 



Address by John Johnson, 18, 22, 26 



Agricultural and horticultural education for women, 308, 317 



Agricultural College, report of visiting committee to, 279, 286 



Agriculture in New England, 28, 29 



Agriculture of Eastern Hampshire, essay upon, 318, 320 



American desert, character of, 64, 65 



Analyses of commercial fertilizers, 94, 95, 96, 103, 125 



Annual meeting of the Board, 254, 260, 280, 320 



Apple, cultivation of the, 194, 196, 205, 213, 216, 219, 225 



Application of fertilizers, 93, 96, 125, 129, 144, 203 



Ashes as manure, 103, 104, 110, 112, 114, 204, 217 



Ayrshire cows for the dairy, 298, 299 



Barnyard manure, value of, 97, 100, 125, 127, 129 



Barre system of feeding stock, 263, 264 



Blue glass in greenhouses, 222, 223 



• Board of Agriculture, annual meeting of, 254, 300, 320 



Board of Agriculture, meeting of, at Fall River, 9, 18, 79, 227 



Bogs, reclaiming, 26 



Bones, ground and unground, as manure, 100, 109, 128 



Bristol County, character of soil of, 10 



Bristol County, statistics of industry in, 13, 14, 15, 17 



Butter absorbs odors, 300, 303, 304 



Butter and its manufacture, .... 25, 268, 270, 272, 291, 293, 300, 304, 306 



Cabbage caterpillar and its parasite, 336 



Cabbage butterfly, 336, 337 



Cabbage web moth, 339 



Caked udder, treatment of, 185 



Calcic carbonates, characteristics of, 87 



Canker-worms and their treatment, 205, 206, 224, 225 



Carbonate and phosphate of lime, 87 



Cattle husbandry, abstract of address on, 178, 183 



Chadbourne, P. A., lecture by, 61, 68, 79 



Charleston phosphates, 98, 106, 107, 108, 109 



Cheney, Mrs. Ednah D., lecture by, 156, 170, 178 



Chestnut weevil, 345 



Clay lands should be drained, 44, 45 



Chestnut borer, 345 



Clean culture, importance of, 25, 144, 145 



