INDEX TO SECEETARY'S EEPOKT. 



Annual meeting of the State Board of Agriculture, 297. 



resolutions passed at, 311. 

 Annual report of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 411, 

 cattle commissioners, 203. 

 on commercial fertilizers, by Professor C. A. Goessmann, 333. 

 Agriculture of Massachusetts for forty years, paper on, by James S. Grin- 



nell, 3G-387. 

 Agriculture, the chemistry of nitrogen in its relations to, 300-307. 



of Massachusetts, table of statistics of, 381. 

 Agricultural exhibitions, 398. 

 Analysis of milk, 32-3i. 



cow-manure, 135. 

 muck deposits, 133. 

 liquid excrement, 136. 

 Apples carefully grown, and subjected to certain conditions, can be kept for 



a long time, 74. 

 Apples, a tendency of, to decay during moist weather, 74. 

 check-mating the core-worm in, 70. 

 choice of varieties of, 70. 



the most important fruit grown in New England, 67. 

 great demand for, in the markets of Northern Europe, 75. 

 Apple-trees, selecting the soil for the planting of, 70. 



the matter of changing the bearing year of, 72. 

 Ashes, leached and unleached, comparative value of, 141. 

 Active cultivation, question of a su^iply of manure for, 167. 

 Air, the consequences of breathing, when impure, 319. 



impurity of, from various causes, 315. 

 Animal growth and nutrition, paper on, by Professor J. W. Sanborn of New 



Hampshire, 218-273. 

 Animal digestion^ table of percentage of, 236. 



nutrition, table of digestive amounts of, 221. 

 A cow to the acre, 159. 



Axles, the advantage of a narrow track for, 88. 

 Ammoniated superphosphates, table of values of, 349. 



Bridge water, public meeting of the State Board at, 20. 



Bowen, Dr. George Aiistin, of Connecticut, lecture by, on the digestion and 



winter feeding of domestic animals, 29-61. 

 Butter, feeding of cows for, 51-53. 

 Basis of valuation for commercial fertilizers, 334. 

 Bone fertilizers, table of values of, 342. 

 Barley, 377. 

 Buckwheat, 377. 

 Butter-making, creamery system of co-operatiou, 8. 



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