428 INDEX TO SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



The agriculture of Massachusetts for forty years, paper on, by James S. 

 Grinnell, 3C1-387. 



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

 311-332. 



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

 Chadbourne, 203-218. 



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

 108-128. 



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



Time and place of holding the next country meeting of State Board of Agri- 

 culture, 308. 



Temperature of vegetable and animal life, 31. 



The chemistry of nitrogen in its relations to agriculture, 300-307 



The comparative value of leached ashes with unleached, 141. 



Two fifty-acre farms well tilled, in contrast with a hundred-acre farm badlv 

 tilled, 161. 



The science of feeding, 222. 



The blight in strawberry fields, Gi. 



Table of statistics of agriculture in Massachusetts in the past forty years, 381. 



Tobacco, 374. 



The season of 1881, review of, 5. 



The dairy interest of the State, 7. 



Young cattle, does it pay to feed them skim-milk ? 47-50. 

 You' should not allow land to remain idle, ICO. 

 Young animals should not be fed on poor forage, 224. 



Variety of ai^ples, 70. 



Vehicles, the necessity of a standard axle for, 85-92. 



Ventilation of houses, bow to secure, 317. 



"What is meant by nitrogen in agriculture ? 140. 

 "What the chemistry of agriculture has taught us, 384. 

 "Winter feeding of domestic animals, 29-61. 

 Water, 321. 

 Wheat, growing of, in Massachusetts, 175. 



the best soil for the growing of, 177. 



our neglect in not growing, 374. 



