100 INDEX TO SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



Cattle, report on contagious diseases of, 2S2-289. 



exportation of, 22, 24, 25, 28, 2S4. 



feeding of, 20, 54, 101, 107, 117, 122, 230, 233, 396, 401. 



characteristics of native, 19, 27, 98. 



pleuro-pnenrnonia in, danger of, 39, 43, 282, 284. 



Guernsey and Jersey, 370, 375. 



husbandry, 10, 38, 283. 



shorthorn, 13, 96, 109, 121. 

 Cesspools, danger from, 83, 84. 

 Cheese, quantity of, made in the State, 37, 129, 131. 

 Chemicals, ruling market-prices of, 308, 310. 

 Chemistry of cattle-feeding, 222, 224, 226, 230, 233, 235, 238. 



fruit-culture, 47, 55, 344, 368. 

 Cob-meal, feeding-value of, 109, 118, 251. 

 Commercial fertilizers, trade in, 307, 310, 313, 314. 

 Coloring of butter, 150, 152, 161. 

 Concord grape, chemical constituents of, 347, 350. 

 Contagious diseases, protection against, 39, 41, 284, 288. 

 Cooking, mistakes in, 85-87. 



Corn, relative value of different kinds of, 221, 238, 256. 

 Corn-fodder, composition of green, 252, 254, 256. 

 Cost of raising stock, 20. 

 Cotswold sheep, wool of the, 203, 218. 

 Cottonseed-meal, feeding of, 107. 

 Cow, the model, 95, 103, 106, 108, 114, 116, 117, 122. 

 report on the Guernsey, 375. 

 report on the Jersey, 370-375. 

 Cows, Guenou's system of selecting, 174, 177, 198. 

 Cranberry, chemical analysis of the, 366. 



composition of the, 306. 

 Creamery butter, price of, 35, 143, 145. 

 Crops, marketing of farm, 268, 273, 278. 



Dairy, management of the, 103, 105, 166. 



implements exhibited at Greenfield, 168, 170, 173. 



interests of Massachusetts, 6, 124, 149, 405. 

 Dairy cow, the breeding and care of the, 20, 95, 99, 106, 123. 



paper on the, 95, 99. 

 Dairying, co-operation for, 35, 100, 102, 146, 148. 

 Deep and shallow setting of milk, 160, 167. 

 Devon cow, qualities of the, 97, 120. 

 Delegates, appointment of, 369, 370. 

 Diseases, classification of, 73, 77. 

 Drainage, simple method of, 260, 294, 296, 298, 300. 



Essays, subjects for, 377. 



Escutcheon, judging cows by the, 177, ISO, 182, 191, 201. 



Exhibitions, time of, changed, 369. 



Experience on the farm, 43, 49, 61, 257, 270, 282. 



Experiments with fertilizers and feeding, 231, 234, 269. 



Exportation of fresh meats, 22, 23, 28, 284. 



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Farm-crops, marketing of, 102, 268, 273, 278. 

 Farmhouse, construction of the, 278, 280. 

 Farm, hygiene of the, 71, 79, 82, 89, 91. 



bringing a worn-out, into good condition, 17, 43, 57, 257, 282. 



outfit of the, 274. 



