INDEX TO SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



Abortion in cows, 33. 



Address, opening, before the State Board of Agi-iculture at Lowell, by A. C. Varnum, 3. 



Agi-iculturai exhibitions for 1884, 256. 



Agricultural census, time for taking the same, 193. 



Analysis of fodder, 314. 



Annual meeting. State Board of Agriculture, 189. 



Annual report of commercial fertilizers, 194. 



Annual report of Massachusetts Agricultural College, 415. 



Annual report of the experiment station at Amherst, 261. 



Annual report of chemist of experiment station, 315. 



Asparagus, cultivation of 89. 



Assignment of delegates to the county fairs, 246. 



Bacteria in ensilage, 289. 

 Board of Agriculture, annual meeting of, 189. 

 Board of Agriculture, country meeting at Lowell, 3. 

 Board of control of experiment station, 259. 



Cattle, Jersey, in America, 109. 



Census, agricultural, time for taking the same, 193. 



Changes in time for holding fairs, 243. 



Chemistry of fruit culture, 360. 



College, Massachusetts Agricultural, course of study at, 420. 



Commercial fertilizers, annual report on, 194. 



Committee on credentials to the State Board, report of, 190. 



Committee on examination of Montague Plains, 245. 



Composition of drainage waters, table of, 283. 



Corn experiment and drainage, 273. 



Country meeting. Board of Agriculture at Lowell, 3. 



County fairs, changes in time, 243. 



Course of study at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 420. 



Cows, abortion in, 33. 



Cranberry culture and its insect pests, paper on, by Winfrid A. Stearns, 158. 



Crude Kieserit, 356. 



Cushman, Elbridge, paper by, on how shall we fertilize our farms, 128. 



Cultivation of asparagus, 89. 



Currant worm, 311. 



Delegates, assignment of, to the county fairs, 246. 

 Destruction of injurious insects, 310. 

 Diseased peach trees, 361. 

 Diseases of plants, 309. 



