ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



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RENOVATING 



ROBERTS 



1868 (Pt. 1), 192, 198; 1872 (Pt. 2), 185; 

 1874 (Pt. 1), 24, 46. 

 Renovating pastures. Sre Pastures. 



— fruit-trees, methods of, 1875 (Pt. 2), 

 137. 



Reproduction, methods of, 1874 

 (Pt. 1), 166-168. See Breeding. 



Requisites and e\'idence3 of good 

 farming, 1853 (Pt. 2), 1. 



— for profitable farming, 1870 (Pt. 1), 

 98. 



Resources of Massachusetts, 1872 

 (Pt. 2), 37, 42. 



Respiration is a species of combus- 

 tion, 1859 (Pt.'l), 48. 



Reversion in breeding, 1870 (Pt. 1), 

 98. 



Rewards of agriculture, 1854 (Pt. 2), 

 447. 



Reynolds, Joseph, essay by, on farm- 

 management, 1859 (Pt. 2), 112. 



— report by, on sheep-husbandry, 

 1860 (Pt. 2), 210. 



on swine, 1862 (Pt. 2), 233. 



Rice, David, statement of, on manage- 

 ment of orchards, 1853 (Pt. 2), 94. 



— report by, on agricultural imple- 

 ments, 1853 (Pt. 2), 420. 



on ploughing, 1854 (Pt. 2), 419. 



on bee-keeping, 1860 (Pt. 2), 229. 



on apples and apple-trees, 1861, 



(Pt. 2), 211. 

 Rice, William E., essay by, on open- 

 air grape-culture, 1864 (Pt. 2), 145. 

 Rice-Grass, characteristics of, 1856 



(Pt. 1), 19, 118. 

 Richardson, Ebenezer, statement of, 



on management of orchards, 1853 



(Pt. 2), 83. 

 Richardson, Francis, statement of, 



on farm-management, 1854 (Pt. 2), 



16. 

 Richardson, James, report by, on 



fruits, 1854 (Pt. 2), 419. 

 on saving of manures, 1854 



(Pt. 2), 493. 

 Richardson, James, jun., report l>y, 



on management of orchards, 1853 



(Pt. 2), 106. 

 Richards, P. N., statement of, on 



farm-management, 1857 (Pt. 2), 132. 

 Right of way on owners' lands, 1872 



(Pt. 1), 1301-38. 

 Riley, Professor V. C, essay by, on 



the army -worm, 1877 (Pt. 1), 243, 



251. 



Road-Making, prize essays upon, 1809 

 (Pt. 2), 207, 264, 283. 



— lecture upon, 1870 (Pt. 1), 20, 40,63. 

 RoAD-RoLLERs, construction and 



utility of, 1869 (Pt. 2), 228, 229; 1870 

 (Pt. 1), 66. 

 Roads, importance of having good, 

 1874 (Pt 2), 23. 



— rules for laying out, 1869 (Pt. 2), 

 207; 1870 (Pt. 1), 45. 



for making the bed of, 1869 



(Pt. 2), 212, 271; 1870 (Pt. 1), 47, 49. 



— use of labor-tax in repairing, in- 

 judicious, 1870 (Pt. 1), 58. 



— drains and culverts for, 1869 (Pt. 2), 

 217, 273, 285, 286; 1870 (Pt. 1), 49, 50. 



— how to make the surface of, 1869 

 (Pt. 2), 218, 220; 1870 (Pt. 1), 48. 



— statistics of, in Massachusetts, 1870 

 (Pt. 1), 23, 43. 



— foundation of, 1869 (Pt. 2), 221, 290; 

 1870 (Pt. 1), 51, 53. 



— Telford, character of the, 1869 

 (Pt. 2), 295. 



— MacAdam top for, description of, 



1869 (Pt. 2), 222, 231. 



— how to be kept in repair, 1869 

 (Pt. 2), 233, 236, 239, 277; 1870 (Pt. 1), 

 51, 55. 



— cost of keeping in repair, 1870 

 (Pt. 1), 44. 



— proposed system of managing and 

 lepairing, 1869 (Pt. 2), 247, 278, 305, 

 307; 1870 (Pt. 1), 54, 61. 



— around a hill preferable to those 

 over one, 1869 (Pt. 2), 210; 1870 

 (Pt. 1), 46. 



— force required to move vehicles on 

 different kinds of, 1869 (Pt. 2), 242, 

 245, 269. 



— in Europe, character of the, 1869 

 (Pt. 2), 301; 1870 (Pt. 1), 21, 77, 80, 

 100. 



— proper locations for, 1869 (Pt. 2), 

 265. 



— grades in, 1869 (Pt. 2), 268, 288; 



1870 (Pt. 1), 46. 

 Roadster horses. See Horses. 

 Roberts, Austin J., statement of, on 



cranberry-culture, 1853 (Pt. 2), 255. 



on fanri-management, 1862 (Pt. 2), 



117; 1864 (Pt. 2), 55; 1865 (Pt. 2), 21. 



— essay by, on the preservation of 

 fruits, 1861 (Pt. 2), 88. 



RoRERTS, David, report by, on cran- 

 berry-culture, 1855 (Pt. 2), 110. 



