INDEX TO SECRETARY'S REPORT. 4G1 



Massachusetts Agricultural College, annual report, 415. 

 Meeting, annual, of the State Board of. Agriculture, 189. 

 Middlesex North Agricultural Society, 13. 

 Moore, John B., paper by, on market gardening, 83. 



Nichols, Dr. James R., paper by, on sunshine on the farm, 369. 

 Nitrification of soils, 277. 

 Nitrogen, cost of per pound, 196. 

 Nomenclature of fruits, 191. 



OtHcers of the county societies, 253. 



Opening address before the State Board of Agriculture at Lowell, by A. C. Var num, 3. 



Peach yellows, 361. 



Phosphoric acid, cost per pound, 196. 



Pierce, John VV., paper by, on experiments with fertilizers, 63. 



Pigs, experiments with, 296. 



Place and worli of the State College, paper on, by President James C. Greenough, 53. 



.Plan for drainage, 268. 



for feeding barn, 270. 

 Plants, diseases of, 309. 

 Public meeting of the State Board of Agriculture, 3. 



Report of committee on credentials. State Board of Agriculture, 190. 



of chemist, experiment station, 315. 



on ensilage, experiment station, 285. 

 Rose bugs, 312. 



Salmon, Dr. D. E., paper by, on veterinary problems of the daj', 15. 



Scholarship, Veterinary College, New York, 244. 



Silo, experiment station, description of, 285. 



Statistics of manufactories at Lowell, 10. 



State College at Amherst, place and work of the, 53. 



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



Sunshine on the farm, paper on, by Dr. James R. Nichols, 309. 



Symptoms of Texas fever, 31. 



Table of compositions of drainage waters, 283. 



Temperature of ensilage in silo, 287. 



Texas fever, symptoms of, 31. 



Transmitting the report of the experiment station, 260. 



Trustees, overseers and faculty. Agricultural College, 455. 



Valuation of fertilizers, 347. 



Value of market garden crops, 95. 



Varnum, A. C, address of, before the State Board of Agriculture at Lowell, 3. 



Veterinary problems of the day, paper on, by Dr. D. E. Salmon, 15. 



Water drainage, composition of, 283. 



