532 INDEX. 



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Agriculture, Board of influence of the, on the agriculture of the 



State, essay on, by John Bursley, ..... 331 

 Agriculture, Board of, members, officers and committees, . v, 285, 513 

 Agriculture, Board of, public winter meeting of the, at North- 

 ampton, 41 



Agriculture, Board of, publications of the, xv 

 Agriculture, Board of, report of the, to the Legislature, acting 



as overseers of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, . 305 

 Agriculture, Board of, resolutions by the, on the death of Edward 



M. Thurston 297 



Agriculture, Board of, special meeting of the 295 



Agriculture, Board of, summer meeting of the, at Swansea. . 7 



Agriculture, early history of. ....... 338 



Agriculture, monks in, the influence of the. address on, by H. 



H. Goodell, LL.D., 8 



Agriculture in a system of public education, nature study and 



the need of. lecture on. by C. F. Hodge, Bh.D., . . . 200 

 Agriculture in the common schools, teaching of, 195 

 Agriculture of the twentieth century demands, a lesson in econom- 

 ics : what the. essay on. by Dr. G. M. Twitchell. . . . 364 



Alfalfa, culture and value of 180 



Alvord, Major Henry E., lecture by, on dairying in France, . 121 

 Amesbury and Salisbury Agricultural and Horticultural Society. 



mortgage of property of the. ...... 4 



Animals and sanitation, report of committee on domestic, . . 299 

 Anthrax, symptomatic, or blackleg, in work of Cattle Commis- 

 sion, 482 



Apple canker, concerning, ....... 253 



Apple culture promising, ....... 235 



Apple growing, soil for, and management of, . . . 230. 242 



Apple trees, planting and care of, ...... 287 



Apples, new varieties of. concerning. . . . . .241 



Appropriations for agricultural purposes, .... xvii 



Arsenate of lead as an insecticide, ..... 62,98,117 



Arsenical compounds for destroying insects, concerning, . . 97 



Birds, insectivorous, value of, . . . . . . . xiv 



Blackleg vaccine, preparation and use of, . . . 483, 480 



Blackleg or symptomatic anthrax, concerning, . . . 482 

 Board of Agriculture. See Agriculture. Board of. 

 Hoard of Cattle Commissioners. See Cattle Commissioners, 



Board of. 



Boston butter market, statistics of, ..... 435 



Boston milk supply, statistics of, ..... 444 



Breeding, tree, concerning, ....... 



Breeding for dairy purposes, ...... 170, 384 



