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Milk, treatment of, in butter-making, 270, 272, 288, 294 



Millet, value of, for fodder, 131 



Mixture of grasses, importance of, 21 



Mixture of soils, importance of, 127 



Mormon cooperative labor, 73, 74 



Mormon industry, 62, 68, 69, 73 



Mulching and its value, 202, 203, 220, 276 



Muriate of potash, 98, 101, 102 



Muscular development of women, value of, 159 



Neat stock, increase of, in the country, 18 



New England agriculture, character of, 28, 29 



Nichols, J. R., lecture by, 79, 86, 100 



Nitrogen and nitrogenous manures, 86, 87, 90, 91, 126 



Oak callidium, 346 



Object in covering plants in winter, 202 



Onion fly, 336 



Onion thrips, 333 



Packard, A. S., report by, on injurious insects, 331, 347 



Parturition of the cow, ' 267 



Peaches, cultivation of, 221 



Pear culture, 197, 225, 226, 227 



Pitchy-legged weevil, 342 



Phosphorus, characteristics of, 88 



Plant-food, 126 



Plants, food of, lecture on, 80, 90, 100 



Plaster as a fertilizer, 105, 113 



Ploughing, when and how it should be done, 19, 23 



Ploughs, different forms of, 19 



Potatoes and their cultivation, 90, 101, 147 



Potash consumed by plants, 89, 90, 91, 101, 102, 147 



Process of germination, 84, 85 



Products of the college farm, 282, 284 



Progress in fruit culture, 11 



Public meeting of the Board at Fall River, 9, 18, 79 



Radish weevil, 341 



Rain-fall, influence on, by destruction of forests, 67, 68 



Raspberry saw-fly, 343 



Reclaiming bogs, 26 



Report of the committee on cattle diseases, 244, 254 



Report of the visiting committee to the Agricultural College, .... 279, 286 

 Rotation in crops, importance of, 149, 150, 152 



Salt Lake, character of, 65 



Sap blight in pear-trees, 226 



Seeding to grass with grain, 7, 8 



Seeds, importance of using the best, 139, 140, 144 



Shells of oysters as fertilizers, 110, 111 



Shelter for fruits, 277 



Shorthorn cows as dairy stock, 297, 298 



Soft and hard-burned tiles, 42, 43 



Soils in which drainage is necessary, 31, 44, 45, 275 



