INDEX TO SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



Absorbents, use of, 59, Gl, G3, 64, 70, 272. 

 Accounts, farm, keeping of, 27G, 278. 

 Acids in tbe grape and the vine, 348-350. 

 Agricultural College, report on the,o04, 303. 

 farm stock on the, 343. 

 Air, pure in sleeping-rooms, 87-89. 

 Alvord, H. E., paper by, on the dairy, 124-149. 

 Ammoniated superphosphates, analysis of, 322-324. 

 Animal products, statistics of, 23, 31, 37. 

 Apple, analysis of the, 365. 

 Ash constituents of fruits modified by soils and fertilizers, 345, 347, 352, 355, 



368. 

 Associated dairying, advantage of, 101, 143, 145, 147, 148. 



Baldwin apple, increase of sugar in the, 363. 



Barn, construction of the, 118, 261, 262, 264. 



Bartlett pear, sugar in juice of the, 366. 



Bat-guano, composition of, 321. 



Beef, exportation of, 22, 24, 27, 29. 



Beet. See sugar-beet. 



Beet-sugar, manufacture of, 378, 388, 393, 394. 



influence on agriculture, 149, 378, 408. 

 Bones, analysis of, as fertilizers, 315, 316. 

 Bowditch, E. F., report on Guernseys, 375-377. 

 Brain-work, need of, 46, 49, 50, 66. 

 Breeding, principles of, 18, 19, 98, 100, 104, 112, 213. 

 Butter, best cows for, 96, 101, 104, 123. 



best mode of packing, 149. 



centrifugal machine for making, 153, 158, 163, 165. 



methods of coloring, 150, 153, 161. 



how to reduce the cost of producing, 133, 137, 163. 



list of premiums awarded, with statements of making, 165, 168, 173. 



milk to a pound of, 116, 119, 160. 



no danger of over-production of, in Massachusetts, 34, 36, 132. 



philosophy of the price of, 34, 36. 



railway transportation of, 35, 37, 133, 137, 141. 



making, relative merits of associated, 145, 149. 



relative value of home-made, and creamery, 141, 145. 



requisites for obtaining good, 33, 36, 166. 



table of receipts and exports of, in Boston, 1874-79, 34, 130. 



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Calves, feeding of, 20. 



Cattle, characteristics of Spanish and Texan, 27, 28. 



