Ixxvi AGRICULTURE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



QUAKING-GRASS 



RENNET 



Quaking-Gkass, characteristics of 

 the, 1856 (Pt. 1), 54, 55, 126, 129. 



Question-Box at the Waltham meet- 

 ing of the Board, answers to ques- 

 tions in the, 1877 (Pt. 1), 119, 211. 



Quinces, varieties of, and their cul- 

 ture, 1854 (Pt. 2), 92; 1867 (Pt. 2), 

 95. 



QuiNCY granite, facts in relation to, 

 1860 (Pt. 2), 77. 



QuiNCY, Josiah, jun., management of 

 farm of, 1860 (Pt. 2), 70. 



Babbit, description and habits of the 

 common, or gray, 1861 (Pt. 1), 188; 

 1868 (Pt. 2), 93. 



of the white, or hare, 1861 (Pt. 1), 



187. 



Babbits, habits of, 1868 (Pt. 2), 93, 94. 



— methods of snaring, 1868 (Pt. 2), 94. 



— experiments in breeding, 1866 

 (Pt. 1), 83. 



— in France, injury to agriculture by 

 the, 1863 (Pt. 1), 276. 



Baccoon, description and habits of 



the, 1861 (Pt. 1), 163. 

 Bafting lumber, mode of, practised 



in Maine, 1854 (Pt. 1), 158. 

 Bain, depth to wliich it penetrates, 



1854 (Pt. 1), 44. 



— theory for the artificial productioK 

 of, 1854 (Pt. 1), 61. 



Bainfall greater in New England 

 than in Great Britain, 1853 (Pt. 1), 

 152; 1854 (Pt. 1), 60, 77. 



— influence of the, on agriculture, 

 1867 (Pt. 2), 140, 141; 1875 (Pt. 2), 42, 

 48. 



— ammonia in the, 1873 (Pt. 1), 116; 

 1875 (Pt. 1), 146, 150, 151, 166, 250, 

 251, 254. 



— influenced by the destruction of 

 forests. Sue Forests. 



Bapacia, characteristics of the, 1861 



(Pt. 1), 137. 

 Bankin, Ansel A., statement by, on 



barn-cellar, 1863 (Pt. 2), 140. 

 Baspberky, profits in the cultivation 



of the, 1868 (Pt. 1), 71, 72. 



— insects injurious to the, 1869 (Pt. 1), 

 244; 1871 (Pt. 1), 343. 



— varieties and culture of the, 1859 

 (Pt. 1), 71, 102. 



Bat, Norway, or common brown, de- 

 scription and habits of the, 1861 

 (Pt. 1), 179; 1868 (Pt. 2), 82. 



Bat, methods of destroying the, 1868 



(Pt. 2), 83, 84. 

 Battlesnake-Gbass, characteristics 



of, 1856 (Pt. 1), 42. 

 Baymond, Samuel, statement of, on 



farm-management, 1858 (Pt. 2), 104. 

 Bead, Elijah M., statement of, on 



Alderney cow, 1853 (Pt. 2), 301. 

 Beaping-Machines, American, trial 



of, in France, 1855 (Pt. 1), 91. 

 Bectified Peruvian guano, value of, 



1876 (Pt. 1), 261. 

 Bed fescue-grass, characteristics of, 



1856 (Pt. 1), 57, 154. 



— pine, characteristics of the, 1877 

 (Pt. 1), 268. 



— clover, characteristics and value 

 of, 1856 (Pt. 1), 100, 103, 127, 154, 194. 



modes of curing, 1856 (Pt. 1), 194, 



196. 



Bed-tailed hawk, habits of the, 1871 

 (Pt. 2), 110. 



Bed-Top grass, characteristics and 

 value of, 1856 (Pt. 1), 13, 26, 119, 129, 

 154, 156. 



Beduviid^, characteristics and habits 

 of the, 1862 (Pt. 1), 179. 



Beed canary-grass, characteristics 

 and 'nutritive value of, 1856 (Pt. 1), 

 62, 80, 118. 



Beed, Joseph A., report by, on farm- 

 management, 1854 (Pt. 2), 18. 



Beed, Stephen, report by, on the cul- 

 tivation of corn, 1853 (Pt. 2), 163. 



Beform school at Westborough, de- 

 scription and objects of the, 1854 

 (Pt. 1), 3. 



— in the management of agricultural 

 societies, necessity for, 1875 (Pt. 2), 

 72, 76. 



Befrigerator railway-cars, descrip- 

 tion and use of, 1867 (Pt. 1), 303. 



Befuse of slaughter-houses, value of, 

 for manure, 1868 (Pt, 1), 99. 



Belation of soil-culture to soul-cul- 

 ture, 1869 (Pt. 2), 45, 54; 1872 (Pt. 2), 

 16, 18. 



— of agriculture to manhood, 1872 

 (Pt. 2), 16, 23. 



— of science to agriculture, 1875 

 (Pt. 2), 22, 25, 28, 67, 68, 70, 90, 98. 

 Also see Agriculture. 



Belative fecundity of birds and in- 

 sects, 1872 (Pt. 2), 196. 



Bennet, use of, in cheese-making, 

 1856 (Pt. 2), 403; 1865 (Pt. 1), 235; 



