INDEX TO SECRETARY'S REPORT. 425 



Economy in feeding, 223. 



Enormous cost annually to maintain good fencing, 163. 



Essays to be read at the next annual meeting of the Board of Agriculture, 310. 

 Election of members of the committee on the Agricultural College, 309. 

 Experimental station, recommendation of, by the Governor in his last annual 

 message, 62. 



Food combination, 248. 



made digestible by fermentation, 245. 

 composition of, 219. 

 classification of, 32. 



demand for, in vegetable and animal life, 30. 

 Feeding, science of, 222. 



economical use of, 223. 



of young animals on poor forage bad policy, 224. 



with a view to good manure, 233. 



cows for milk, 53-61. 



for butter, 51-53. 

 nutrients consumed, 236. 

 Fences, are they necessary or desirable ? 162-165. 



enormous cost of, 163. 

 Fruits and flowers, cultivation of, remarks on, by J. B. Moore, 275-293. 

 Fruit-growing, paper on, by Avery P. Slade, 62-80. 

 Farm trials of muck as manure, 137. 

 Forage crops in New England, growing and feeding of, jaaper on, by A. W. 



Cheever, 145-180. 

 Fertilizers, good results from the constant use of, 172. 

 Faxon, Dr. W. L., paper by, on tlie silo, how it may be made available by 



any farmer, 182-203. 

 Fodder for silos, should it be cut up ? 186. 



process of decomposition of, should be understood when stored in sili>s, 

 184. 

 Flowers, cultivation of, in pots, the best kind of soil, 276. 



how often should the soil be replenished for, 278. 

 Fermentation makes food digestible, 245. 

 Forest fires, action of the State Board of Agriculture upon a memorial 



presented, 309. 

 Finances of the agricultural societies, 390. 



Glucose, millions of pounds of, used monthly in the adulteration of table-siruiis 

 and low-grade sugars, 104. 

 substituted for the genuine sugar of commerce, 106. 

 Growing and feeding forage crops in New England, paper on, liy A. W. 



Cheever, 145-180. 

 Growing of wheat in Massachusetts, 175. 

 of corn specially for fodder, 156. 

 Green food compared with dry food, 243. 



for silos, should it be cut up ? 186. 



the process of decomposition of, should be understood when store;! 

 in silos, 184. 

 Green fodder-corn; dried fodder-corn, 10. 

 Glanders, 275. 



German tables of feeding-values, 228. 

 Grinnell, James S., iiaper by, on the agriculture of Massachusetts for forty 



years, 361-387. 

 Goessmann, Profos.sor C. A., ninth annual report of. on commercial fertilizers, 



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