VI 



AGRICULTURE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



AGRICULTURAL 



AGRICULTURE 



(Pt. 2), 113; 1872 (Pt. 2), 26, 28; 1876 

 (Pt. 1), 203. 

 Agkicultural productions, average 

 analyses of, 1872 (Pt. 1), 167. 



— reports, great and increased de- 

 mand for the, 1856 (Pt. 1), 5, 283; 

 1864 (Pt. 1), 7. 



— resources of Massachusetts, 1863 

 (Pt. 1), 42. 



— schools in Europe, character and 

 value of, 1863 (Pt. 1), 1, 57; 1869 

 (Pt. 2), 73. 



— schools, necessity for, 1855 (Pt. 1), 

 45 (Pt. 2), 333; 1857 (Pt. 2), 9.3, 101; 

 1858 (Pt. 2), 5; 1859 (Pt. 1), 136; 1863 

 (Pt. 1), 33 (Pt. 2), 3, 5, 7, 470; 1875 

 (Pt. 2), 34. 



— societies, suggestions for the man- 

 agement of, 1853 (Pt. 1), 103; 1855 

 (Pt. 2), 411; 1858 (Pt. 1), 40 (Pt. 2), 

 1, 5, 10; 1871 (Pt. 1), 295, 297; 1871 

 (Pt. 2), 121, 124, 129, 138, 148; 1873 

 (Pt. 1), 6, 25, 390, 391 (Pt. 2), 45, 49, 

 62, 64, 65, 68; 1875 (Pt. 2), 72, 76; 

 1877 (Pt. 1), 295, 297. 



— societies in Massachusetts, when 

 some of the earlier ones were incor- 

 porated, 1853 (Pt. 1), 10, 12, 15. 



— societies, mission, influence, and 

 utility of, 1855 (Pt. 2), 32, 55, 358, 

 412; 1857 (Pt. 2), 100; 1858 (Pt. 2); 

 1867 (Pt. 2), 66, 68; 1871 (Pt. 1), 347 

 (Pt. 2), 122, 124, 129. 



early establishment of, in New 



England, 1856 (Pt. 2), 9. 

 uniformity of action desirable 



in, 18.j8(Pt. 1), 40. 

 duties and opportunities of, 1858 



(Pt. 2), 1, 8, 10. 

 laws relating to, 1859 (Pt. 2), 308; 



1876 (Pt. 2), 180, 184. 

 establishment and growth of, 



1876 (Pt. 2), 16, 18, 21, 25, 29, 30. 

 first e.xliibition of, in the United 



States, 1873 (Pt. 1), 6, 25. 



— society. State, meeting for the or- 

 ganization of a, 1857 (Pt. 1), 8. 



New England, plan to aid in the 



formation of a, 1863 (Pt. 1), 63. 



— soils, origii;^ of, 1855 (Pt. 2), 296, 

 298; 1856 (Pt. 2), 51, 64; 18(i4 (Pt. 1), 

 104, 106, 111, 168, 173, 180; 1865(Pt. 1), 

 64; 1866 (Pt. 1),266; 18G8 (Pt. 1), 161, 

 169, 179, 260. 



— statistics, importance of collating, 

 1853(Pt. 1), 11, 17; 1855 (Pt. 2), 312, 383. 



Agricultural statistics of Massa- 

 chusetts, 1855 (Pt. 1), 139 (Pt. 2), 9(); 

 1859 (Pt. 1), 120; 1861 (Pt. 1), 198 

 (Pt 2), 297; 1869 (Pt. 2), 86, 87; 1876 

 (Pt. 1), 295 (Pt. 2), 186. 



— statistics, inaccuracy of, as collated 

 by United-States marshals, 1861 

 (Pt. 2), 297; 1872 (Pt. 1), 7, 312; 1876 

 (Pt. 1), 295, 297. 



— value of various species of birds, 

 1865 (Pt. 1), 94, 98, 103; 1868 (Pt. 2), 

 95,97; 1871 (Pt. 2), 107. 



Agriculture, Board of, when estab- 

 lished in Massachusetts, 1853 (Pt. 1), 

 15; 1877 (Pt. 1), 260. 



how constituted, 1856 (Pt. 2), 69, 



70, 76. 



establishment of the, 1870 (Pt. 1), 



12; 1877(Pt. ]), 260, 266. 



organization of the, 1870 (Pt. 1), 



lo. 



salutary influence of the, 1870 



(Pt. 1), 15,"^ 17; 1877 (Pt. 1), 8, 10, 260, 

 265. 



laws relating to the, 1859 (Pt. 2), 



appendix; 1876 (Pt. 2), 177, 179. 



— advance in. iSee Advance. 



— early history of, in Massachusetts, 



1853 (Pt. 1), 2, 14; 1873 (Pt. 1), 12, 15, 

 18. 



— aid and encouragement tp, 1853 

 (Pt. 1), 12, 115; 1854 (Pt. 2), 450, 483; 

 1855 (Pt. 1), 46; 1863 (Pt. 2), 71. 



— of the Indians, 1853 (Pt. 1), 4. 



— science in the practice of, 1853 (Pt. 

 2), 33, 440. 444; 1854 (Pt. 2), 429, 454, 

 466; 1853 (Pt. 2), 296, 300, 402; 1856 

 (Pt. 2), 47; 1864 (Pt. 1), 106. 



— influence of climate on, 1854 (Pt. 1), 

 82. 



— economy of scientific, 1854 (Pt. 2), 

 429. 



— rewards of, 1854 (Pt. 2), 447, 450, 

 504. 



— the position of, 1854 (Pt. 2), 452; 

 1S5S (Pt. 2), 34. 



— British and American, compared, 



1854 (Pt. 2), 470; 1855 (Pt 2), 312; 

 1857(Pt. 2), 88; 1858 (Pt. 2), 55; 1859 

 (Pt. 1), 122; 1860 (Pt. 2), .37, 42; 1864 

 (Pt. 1), 171; 1867 (Pt 1), 10; 1870 

 (Pt. 2), 7, 9. 



— of Great Britain, characteristics of, 

 1854 (Pt. 2), 471; 1858 (Pt. 2), 55. 



— of Flanders, 1854 (Pt. 2), 433; 1859 

 (Pt. 1), 121; 1862 (Pt. 1), 317. 



