INDEX TO SECRETARY'S REPORT. 101 



Farmers, longevity of, 73, 92. 



Farmers' institutes, result of meetings of the, 5, 6, 341, 343. 



sons, means for keeping them, on the farm, 55, 56, 68, 70. 

 Farming experience, details of, 43, 49, 57, 257, 282. 

 Feeding-substances, chemistry of, 222, 230, 232, 234, 399. 

 Feeding of stock, 20, 54, 101, 105, 107, 117, 122, 221, 230, 401. 

 Fertilizers, inspector's report on, 307-339. 



in fruit-culture, 345, 347, 353. 



selection and use of, 50, 58, 60, 67, 271, 272, 347. 

 Fish fertilizers, chemical analyses of, 317, 320. 

 Fodder-corn, composition of, 252, 254, 256. 

 Food, importance of wholesome, 85, 87. 

 Forage-crop fertilizers, analysis of, 323, 327. 



Franklin County, sketch of its agriculture and population, 7, 9, 16. 

 Fresh meats, foreign shipment of, 22, 30. 

 Fruit-culture, chemistry of, 47, 55, 344, 368. 

 Fruits, success in raising small, 46, 49. 



Girdling grape-vines, effect of, 358, 360, 362. 

 Glanders and farcy, nature of, 285, 287, 289. 



Goessmann, C. A., address by, on the relative value of several varieties of 

 corn, 221-256. 



paper by, on the cultivation of the sugar-beet, 378-403. 



report by, on commercial fertilizers, 307. 



report by, on the salt-marshes in Marshfield, 290-292. 



paper by, on the chemistry of fruit-culture, 344-368. 

 Grape, constituents of the wild purple, 345, 353, 355, 363. 

 Grape-sugar increased by fertilizers, 351, 354, 360. 

 Grape-vine, experiments on girdling the, 358, 360, 363. 



starch in the, 363. 

 Grass, time to cut for hay, 52, 61, 263. 

 Grass fertilizers, analysis of, 323. 

 Grasslands, top-dressing of, 51, 58, 62, 65, 67, 272. 

 Greenfield, report on the general exhibit at, 301, 302. 

 Grinnell, James S., address of welcome by, 7-16. 

 Guano fertilizers, chemical analysis of, 320, 329, 331. 

 Guenon, sketch of the life of, 175, 177. 



system of selecting cows, 174, 177, 192, 201. 

 Guernsey cattle, characteristics of, 96, 375. 



Hadwen, O. B., report by, on Jersey cattle, 370-375. 



Hay, various methods of making, 51, 52, 54, 263. 



Hazard, "W. P., paper by, on Guenon's system of selecting cows, 174, 198. 



Hired help on the farm, 273. 



Hitchcock, Edward, lecture by, on the hygiene of the farm, 71, 94. 



Horticulture, science applied to, 344, 346, 352, 36S. 



Hygiene of the farm, lecture on the, 71, 94. 



Hybridization, selection of parents for, 353. 



Indian corn, fertilizers for, 332. 



comparative value of Northern, Southern, and "Western, 244-247. 

 Insanity in farmers, cause and preventatives of, 89, 93. 

 International fertilizer, analysis of, 334, 335. 



Jersey cattle, characteristics of, 13, 15, 96, 104, 134, 370, 375. 

 Juice of the sugar-beet, 392, 393. 



Kitchen, the farmer's, 279, 280. 



