426 INDEX TO SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



Hay, 372. 



for good crops, high cultivation is necessary for, 110. 



making of, the grass should, be cut before it is fully in blossom in, 118. 



making of, the grass should not be cut too close to the ground in, 119. 



the best kind of, for feeding calves, 4G. 

 Hay-tea for calves, 43. 

 Harvesting corn, paper on, by Hon. Levi Stockbridge, 95-100. 



what stage of its growth is considered the best time ? 97. 

 How the silo may be made available by any farmer, paper on, by Dr. W. L. 



Faxon, 182-203. 

 Hog-cholera in Massachusetts, report on, by cattle commissioners, 295. 



Increase in value of neat-cattle in Massachusetts in the past forty years, 367. 

 Increased value of farms and farm-buildings in Massachusetts in the past forty 

 years, 382. 



List of members of State Board of Agriculture, newly elected for the term 

 of three years, 298. 



List of delegates to fairs of countj^ societies, 308. 



officers of the agricultural societies, 1882, 395. 



Liquid excrement of animals, analysis of, 136. 



Lawes, J. B., L.LD. and F.R.S., paper by, on culture of corn, 401. 



Lowe, Dr. L. G., address of, before the State Board of Agriculture, at Bridge- 

 water, 20-29. 



Lynde, Dr. J. P., paper by, on. the sanitary essentials of the home and farm, 

 311-332. 



Massachusetts Agricultural College, annual report of, 411. 

 Muck deposits, origin of, 129. 



age of, 130. 



chemistry of, 132. 



analysis of, 133. 

 Muck-humus, 137. 



Muck of great value as an absorbent of liquid manures, 139. 

 Milch cows, cabbages good winter feeding for, 53-Gl. 

 Milch stock should be fed all that it will digest, 39. 

 Methods of feeding stock, 39-42. 

 Milk, analysis of, 32-34. 



feeding cows for, 5:J-61. 

 Millet, a valuable forage crop, 156. 

 Mistakes made when feeding calves by hand, 44. 

 Manure-value of food for cattle, 233. 

 Magnesium sulphate, table of values of, .339. 

 Mitchell's standard phosphates, table of values of, 353. 

 Matfield lawn-grass fertilizer, table of values of, 355. 



Moore, John B., paper by, on the management of cultivated mowing-lands, 

 108-128. 

 remarks by, on the cultivation of fruits and flowers, 275-293. 



Ninth annual report on commercial fertilizers, by Professor C. H. Goessmann, 



;!33-361. 

 Nitrogen in agriculture, what is meant by ? 140. 

 Nitrogen, commercial, ^•aluo of, per pound, 301. 

 Nitrogen, supply of, in the growing of corn, 408. 

 Nature of swamp-muck, and its value in agriculture, 128-140. 

 Neat-cattle in Massachusetts, increase in value of, in the past forty years, 367. 



