424 INDEX TO SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



Corn, 373. 



harvesting of, paper on, by Hon. Levi Stockbridge, 95-100. 



in Massachusetts must be grown for the grain and /or the fodder, 96. 



the manufacture of glucose, or grape-sugar, from, 105. 



growing of, specially for fodder, 15G. 



culture of, paper on, by J. B. Lawes, LL.D. and F.R.S., 401. 

 Mr. Stewart's reply to J. B. Lawes on, 404. 

 County fairs, report of committee on changes of times for holding, 310. 

 Commercial value of nitrogen per pound, 301. 



Cattle, the effect of bad sanitary surroundings and conditions of, 331. 

 Classification and composition of food, 32. 

 Calves, feeding of, on hay-tea, 43. 

 Creamery system of co-operation butter-making, 8. 

 Cabbages good feeding for milch cows, 53-Gl. 

 Cut-worm, its ravages in strawberry-fields, 65. 

 Core-worm in apples, methods used to destroy, 70. 

 Cellar, description of, for keeping apples, 74. 

 Cattle commissioners, annual report of, 293-297. 

 Chemical natui-e and history of sugars, abstract of lecture on, by Dr. James R. 



Nichols, 100-107. 

 Cultivated mowing-lands, management of, paper on, by J. B. Moore, 108-128. 

 Chemistry of muck-beds, 132. 

 Cows, rations for, 239. 

 Cow-manure, analysis of, 135. 



Commercial fertilizers, New-York and Boston market-prices of. for 18S1, 334. 

 Cultivation of fruits and flowers, remarks on, by Mr. J. B. Moore, 275-293. 

 Cheever, A. W., paper by, on growing and feeding crops in New England, 



143-180. 

 Chadbourne, Hon. Paul A., lecture by, on the farmer's home of the past and 



future, 203-218. 

 Composition of food, 219. 

 Cost of silos, 241. 



Digestion and winter feeding of domestic animals, paper on, by Dr. George 



Austin Bowen, 29-Cl. 

 Digestion, animal, table'of percentage of, 23G. 

 process of, in animal life, 37-39. 

 organs of, in animal life, 34r-37. 

 Dry ground-fish fertilizers, table of A^alues of, 346. 

 Dairy, 377. 



Domestic animals, winter feeding of, 29-61. 



Development of vegetable and animal life by special feeding, 30. 

 Difficulties attending the feeding of calves by hand, 44. 

 Decay of apples during warm weather, 74. 

 Dry fodder-corn, 10. 

 Does subsoiling pay ? 173. 

 Davis, Judge Charles G., paper by, on the necessity of a standard axle for 



vehicles, 85-92. 

 Dry fodder versus ensilage, a feeding-trial, 13. 



Ensilage, 9-240. 



results given of experiments on, 191, 203, 245. 



remarks of Mr. Ware on, 252-257. 



Professor Sanborn's reply to INIr. Ware on, 257-262. 



remarks of Mr. Hersey on, 2()9. 



versus dry food, a feeding-trial, 13. 



