ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



XV 



BLACKBIRDS 



BONE-MEAL 



Blackbirds, foraging habits of the, 



1861 (Pt. 2), 62; 1865 (Pt. 1), 113. 

 Black-Grass, characteristics of, 1856 



(Pt. 1), 110, 119. 

 Black-hawk horses, origin and value 



of, 1857 (Pt. 1), 87, 88; 1860 (Pt. 1), 



187; 1867 (Pt. 2), 169. 

 value aud utility of, 1855 (Pt. 2), 



228; 1857 (Pt. 1), 87; 1860 (Pt. 1), 187; 



1867 (Pt. 2), 169. 

 Black-Knot, characteristics of, and 



treatment of, 1875 (Pt. 1), 187; 1877 



(Pt. 1), 221, 223, 225. 

 Black-Leg among cattle, characteris- 

 tics of, 1865 (Pt. 1), 76. 

 Black Spanish fowls, characteristics 



and value of, 1857 (Pt. 1), 134, 135; 



1858 (Pt. 2), 294; 1860 (Pt. 2), 222; 1864 



(Pt. 2), 131; 1867 (Pt. 2), 184, 185; 1868 



(Pt. 2), 207; 1876 (Pt. 1), 59, 82. 

 Blanev, Stephen, statement of, on 



reclaiming swamps, 1853 (Pt. 2), 



54. 

 Blakina, characteristics of, 1861 



(Pt. 1), 144. 



— brevicauda, description and habits 

 of, 1861 (Pt. 1), 144. 



— talpoides, description and habits 

 of, ib., 145. 



Bleeding of plants, facts in relation 



to the, 1873 (Pt. 1), 182, 183, 185, 186. 



Blistering beetles, characteristics of, 



1862 (Pt. 1), 147. 



Blood, analyses of different, 1869 

 (Pt. 1), 34, 35. 



— dried, value of, as a fertilizer, 1875 

 (Pt. 1), 326. 



Blood, James, description of seedling 



grapes raised by, 1854 (Pt. 2), 412. 

 Blue glass in greenhouses, value of, 



1871 (Pt. 1), 222, 223. 

 Bltje-Gkass, characteristics and value 



of, 1856 (Pt. 1), 43, 45, 46, 120; 1872 



(Pt. 1), 23. 

 Bluejat, habits aud characteristics 



of the, 1865 (Pt. 1), 115; 1871 (Pt. 2), 



120. 

 Blue-joint grass, characteristics of, 



1856 (Pt. 1), 33. 

 Board of Agriculture, Massachusetts, 



establishment of the, 1853 (Pt. 1), 



15. 

 origin of the, 1870 (Pt. 1), 12 ; 1877 



(Pt. 1), 260, 266. 

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



72, 76. 



Board of Agriculture, Massachusetts, 

 General Statutes relating to the, 

 1859 (Pt. 2), appendix; 1876 (Pt. 2), 

 177, 179. 



rules and by-laws for the guid- 

 ance of the, 1862 (Pt. 1), 118, 121, 122. 



connection of the, with the Ag- 

 ricultural College, 1866 (Pt. 1), 11. 



character of the, 1866 (Pt. 1), 17. 



intended as an educational insti- 

 tution, 1866 (Pt. 1), 17, 19. 



resolutions adopted by, relating 



to agricultural societies, 1866 (Pt. 1), 

 307. 



r^sum^ of labors of, and progress 



of agriculture since the organization 

 of the, 1867 (Pt. 1), 8, 12; 1868 (Pt. 1), 

 289; 1875 (Pt. 1), 346, 348, 350; 1877 

 (Pt. 1), 264, 266. 



requirements of the, 1876 (Pt. 2), 



185. 



action of the, in relation to pleu- 



ro-pneumonia, 1860 (Pt. 1), 6; 1861 

 (Pt. 1), 133, 134; 1862 (Pt. 1), 16, 17; 

 1863 (Pt. 1), 61; 1866 (Pt. 1), 6; 1870 

 (Pt. 1), 16. 



salutary influence of the, 1870 



(Pt.l),14,15, 18; 1877 (Pt. 1),8, 260, 265. 



Boards of agriculture, advantages 

 which have resulted from their es- 

 tablishment, 1867 (Pt. 2), 66, 67; 1877 

 (Pt. 1), 8, 10, 267. 



Butler, O. S., on success on the farm, 

 1877 (Pt. 2), 9-12. 



BoLLEs, E. C, address by, on the re- 

 lations of science to agriculture, 

 1875 (Pt. 2), 22, 28. 



Bolton gray fowls, or Hamburgh, 

 characteristics of the, 1858 (Pt. 2), 

 295. 



Bones, ground and unground, value 

 of, as a fertilizer, 1855 (Pt. 2), 309; 

 1856 (Pt. 1), 124, 125, 227 (Pt. 2), 232; 

 1866 (Pt. 1), 234, 235, 250 (Pt. 2), 21 

 55, 57; 1868 (Pt. 1), 96, 100, 117, 265, 

 283,286; 1870 (Pt. 1), 182, 183, 187, 

 191, 192; 1871 (Pt. 1), 100, 109, 128; 

 1873 (Pt. 1), 361; 1874 (Pt. 1), 377- 

 379 (Pt. 2), 27, 28; 1875 (Pt. 1), 333- 

 334; 1876 (Pt. 1), 257; 1877 (Pt. 1), 



Bone-Black waste, value of, as a 

 fertilizer, 1874 (Pt. 1), 377; 1876 

 (Pt. 1), 258. 



Bone-Meal for poultry, 1869 (Pt. 2), 

 188. 



