128 INDEX TO PART FIRST. 



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Cows, percentage of, to the population, 10, 11 



Cream, greatest percentage at the last of the milking, 16, 17 



Crossing in breeding, importance of, 189, 190 



Cucumber culture under glass, 106, 107 



Dairy products of the United States, 11,12 



Depth to set milk for cream, '. . . 38, 39 



Description of the Charleston, S. C, phosphate nodules, . . . . 60, 61 



Drainage and Health, 404, 408 



Effect of air on cream 41 



Effects of girdling trees, 236, 237 



Elements essential to plant-growth, 47 



Elements of milk, . . . 13, 14, 15, 16 



Embryological facts 161, 162, 163. 



English turnips and their cultivation, 116 



Essential oils of grasses flavor milk 19 



Essex pigs and their value, . . . " . . ... . . 136 



Experiments, how they should be conducted, . . . . . 70, 71* 82, 84, 205 



Experiments in feeding pigs, ...".•... 132, 133, 134, 135, 140 

 Experiments with fertilizers, 69, 73, 78, 80, 88, 141, 142, 196 



Fairs of different societies, time of, fixed, 350 



.Fats and their action on milk, . ; . 22,23,24 



Feed for milch cows, . . .. '. . . . 26, 27, 28, 29, 33, 37, 118, 119, 202 



Feeding pigs, experiments in, : 132, 133, 134, 135 



Feeding qualities of turnips, . 117 



Fermentation and its action,- . 14, 15, 16, 18, 24 



Fermcntating manures, heat of, utilized, 93, 94 



Fertilizers, experiments with 69, 73, 78, 80, 88, 141, 142, 143, 352 



Fertilizers, report of state inspector of, 351, 392 



Fish-scraps and fish-guano and their value as a fertilizer, . , 371 



Flavor of the milk affected by the food of the cow, . . 113, 119, 121, 127, 128 



Flint, C. L., lecture by '.. . . . . .47,50,55,64 



Floating curds, 36 



Formation of salt marshes, how accomplished, 328, 329 



Frost, action of, on trees, ■ ■• 239 



Garget, how induced, 28 



Generation, methods of, 153, 157, 160, 166, 167 



German potash salts, analyses of, 352 



Girdling trees, effect of, 236,237,238 



Glass and its properties, 88, 89 



Glass-houses for winter gardening, 88, 90, 104 



Glass-houses, mode of constructing 97, 98, 99, 100, 103 



Glass-houses, proper angle of roof of, . . . . . . . . 94, 95 



Glass-houses, proper site for, ( 93, 94, 96 



■ Globules ki milk and their characteristics, 20,21,25,26,34 



Goessmann, Prof. C. A., report by, 351, 392 



Goessmann, Prof. C. A., paper by, 328, 342 



Grafting, how it is done by nature, . . • 241, 243 



Grasses found in salt marshes, 332, 334, 336 



Ground bones, value of, as a fertilizer, " 377, 378, 379 



Guano, product and value of, . . • 49, 361, 366, 370 



Hadwen, O. B., essay by 110, 118 



Harris, Joseph, essay by, 129, 135, 145 



