INDEX 



TO THE SECRETARY'S REPORT, 



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Action of frost on trees • * 239 



Agricultural College, report of committee on, . . . . . . 317, 321 



Agricultural College, value of, as an experimental station, ■ . . . 321 



Amount of pork in 100 pounds of corn, 132, 133, 134, 135 



Analysis of soil of salt marshes, 338, 339 



Annual business meeting of the Board, 315, 392, 401 



Apparatus for testing the lifting power of the squash, description of, . . 219 



Apple, paper on the, 343, 348 



Arnold, Prof. L. B., lecture by, . . . 10, 13, 17, 21 



Ashes as ii manure for apple-trees, 344 



Abattoir fertilizer, value of, 380 



Barley-sprouts as feed for milch cows, '. 202 



Best food for milch cows, 26 



Board of Agriculture, annual meeting of, 315, 392, 401 



Board of Agriculture, meeting of, at Westfield, 5, 47, 128 



Bone-black waste, value of, as a fertilizer, 377 



Bones, ground, value of, as a fertilizer, 377, 378, 379 



Breeding and management of swine, essay on, 12S, 135, 145 



Breeding, in and in 189, 190, 198, 200 



Breeding of pigs, profitable 130, 199, 202 



Brighton abattoir fertilizer, value of, • . 380 



Butter, cause of specks in, 43, 44 



Butter, heating milk for, 45 



Butter, manufacture and management of, .... 20, 21, 25, 29, 40, 43, 46 



Cabbages as food for stock, 118, 119, 126 



Carbonate of lime and its action on soils, 50 



Carrot, value and cultivation of the, • . 113, 125 



Cattle Commissioners, report of, . 313, 315 



Carnivorous plants . . . . . . 214, 215 



Cellular development, 149, 151, 171 



Chadbourne, P. A., essay by, . 395, 403 



Charleston, S. C, phosphate beds, lecture on, 47, 50, 55, 64 



Cheese and its manufacture, .17,18,29,30,31,42,44 



Cheese made without rennet, . 23, 28, 29 



Chemistry and its teachings 47, 56, 74, 75, 80, 141, 143, 352, 384 



Churning milk, best method of, 19,20,21,38,40,44 



Circulation of sap, 224, 225, 227, 231, 240, 250, 261 



Clark, Prof. W. S., lecture by : . .' 204, 248, 288 



Commercial fertilizers and their value, 83, 84, 141 , 352, 384 



Composition of sap, 259 



Concentrated fertilizers and their value, ..... 83, 84, 141, 352, 384 



Concord and Sudbury Meadows, 404, 406, 408 



Constituents of Charleston phosphates, .51, 376 



Cooling of milk, manner of, 35 



Country meeting of the Board at "Westfield, 5, 47, 128 



