INDEX. 459 



Gypsy moth committee, report of, 287. 



Gypsy moth committee, financial report of, 297. 



Hampden Agricultural Society, 331. 



Hampshire Agricultural Society, 332. 



Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden Agricultural Society, 333. 



Hatch Experiment Station, officers of, 422. 



Highland Agricultural Society, 334. 



Hillside Agricultural Society, 334. 



Hingham Agricultural and Horticultural Society, 335. 



History of sheep husbandry in Massachusetts, lecture on, by Hon. J. S. 



Grinnell, 101. 

 Hoard, Ex-Gov. W. D., lecture by, on the agricultural situation, 65. 

 Hoosac Valley Agricultural Society, 336. 

 Horticultural societies, officers of 425. 

 Housatonic Agricultural Society, 337. 

 Hydrosprayer, description and advantages of, 166. 



Kilbourn, W. A., essay by, on the employment of farm labor, 415. 



Labor, the employment of farm, essay on, by W. A. Kilbourn, 415. . 

 Louis, Theodore, lecture by, on breeding and feeding of swine, 192. 



Maine, fruit growing in, remarks on, by Dr. G. M. Twitchell, 178. 

 Marshfield Agricultural and Horticultural Society, 338. 

 Marshes of Massachusetts, the marine, 385. 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College, Corpoi-ation, 422. 

 Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, officers of, 423. 

 Massachusetts, history of sheep husbandry in, lecture on, by Hon. J. S. 



Grinnell, 101. 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 340. 

 Massachusetts State Grange, officers of, 428. 



Massachusetts, the inundated lands of, essay on, by N. S. Shaler, 377. 

 Massachusetts, the marine marshes of, 385. 

 Massachusetts, the swamps of, 378. 

 Martha's Vineyard Agricultm^al Society, 339. 

 Meetings of the Board of Agriculture, annual, 359 ; special, 3 ; public 



winter, 13. 

 Meetings of the executive committee, 7. 

 Middlesex Agricultural Society, 341. 

 Middlesex North Agricultural Society, 342. 

 Middlesex South Agricultural Society, 343. 

 Mills, Chas. A., essay by, on the laws of competition as affecting the 



Massachusetts farmer, 405. 



Nantucket Agricultural Society, 343. 



Needham, Hon. Daniel, report of, on National Farmers' Congress at 

 Sedalia, Mo., 437. 



Olcott, J. B., lecture by, on road-making and maintenance, 223. 

 Olcott, J. B., appendix to lecture by, on roads, 263. 

 Oxford Agricultural Society, 344. 



