No. 5. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 467 



Pastures, 386 



Peunsylvania Breeders' Association and Dairy Uoion, proceedings of 386 



Pennsylvania Berkshire Breeders' Association , officei's of, 423 



Pennsylvania Sheep Breeders' Association, officers of, 423 



Pennsylvania Jersey Breeders' Association, officers of, 423 



Pennsylv:inia State Society of Poultry, officers of, 424 



Pennsylvania Poultry Breeders' Association, officers of, 424 



Pennsylvania Dairy Union , officers of, 424 



Pennsylvania Breeders' Association , officers of, 424 



Poultry, value of vigor in, 202 



Plant feeding, principles and practice of, 394 



Tests and comparisons , 398 



Profitable egg production , 206 



Requisites for, 206 



The man, 206 



The bird, 207 



Time to hatch, 208 



Selection, 210 



The poultry house , 213 



Rations for laying hens, : 214 



Report of Committee on, 331 



B 



Resolutions, death of General Beaver, 290 



Roads, report of Committee on, 262 



Road construction , 263 



Concrete for, 264 



Systems of road management, 265 



S 



School hygiene, 167 



Proper sanitary appliances required , 167 



Dangers of the schools , 168 



Kind of building, 168 



Little things in school life, 171 



Seed law, enactment of, 302 



Standard established , 302 



Testing of seeds, 303 



Average purity, 304 



Soils, humus in, 182 



How nature makes, 182 



Soils and crops , report on , ; 378 



State Board of Agriculture, officers and members of, 253 



Papers read at Annual Meeting, 257 



Report of Committee on Cereals and Cereal Crops, 257 



Report of Committee on Ri>ads and Road Laws, 262 



Report of Committee on I-'ruit and Fruit Culture, 266 



Report of Botanist, 268 



Report of Poraolo,i,'ist , 271 



Report of the Chemist, 273 



Report of Committee on Dairying and Dairy Products, 276 



Report of the Veterinarian , 278 



Report of Committee on Fertilizers, 284 



Report of Committee on Wool and Cotton Fibers, 287 



Report of Memorial Committee on General Beaver, 290 



Report of Microscopist and Hygienist, 302 



Report of the Entomologist, 306 



Report of the Ornithologist, 309 



Report of ^leteorologist, 314 



Report of Apiarist, 316 



Ref)ort of Agricultural Geologist, 318 



Report of Economic Geologist, 318 



Report of Committee on Livestock , 329 



Report of Committee on Poultry, 331 



Report of Committee on Feeding StufTs , 333 



Joint Session of Board of Agriculture, Breeders' Association and Dairy 



Union , 351 



Meat cutting demonstration , 3.51 



