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INDEX. 



Agriculture, State Board of, etc. — Con. , 



Pul)lications of llie, ....... xxviii 



Report of tlie, to the Legislature, acting as overseers of the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College, 



Secretary of the, report of the, . 



Special business meetings of the, 



Summer field meetings of the. 

 Agriculture, Massachusetts, bulletins of, 

 Amherst, foi'cstry nursery at, concerning the. 

 Animals, results of inspection of, in work of Cattle Uui-cau 

 Animals and sanitation, report of the committee on domest 

 Apples for cultivation, varieties of, . 

 Appropriations for agrieiiltural purjjoses, legislative, 

 Ashfield, demonstration meeting at, . 

 Associations, cow-testing, concerning. 



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vii 



7 



13 



xxxi 



299 



217 



1G7 



43 



XXX 



13 

 8, 106, 175 



Barre, summer field meeting at. ..... 



Bee keeping, profitable, lecture on, hj Mr. Charles Stewart, 



Bee keeping in Massachusetts, concerning, 



Bees, foi;l brood in, concerning, ..... 



Bird hawk, concei-ning the pernicious, .... 



Birds, as motli destroyers, experimental work to determine the 

 value of, ....... . 



Do not control the gypsy moth, whj", .... 



Gyjjsy moth, insects and, report of committee on. 



Increase and protection of, the necessity of field work and 

 experiments for the, ...... 



Legislation for the jirotection of, suggestions for. 



Natural enemies of, some facts about the. 



Possible destruction of, by spraying Avith arsenical insecti- 

 cides, ......... 



Px'otecting fruit from the attacks of, the means of, 



That eat the elm-leaf beetle, ..... 



Useful and their protection, concerning book on. 

 Black head in turkeys, concerning, ..... 

 Blake, Eugene B., address of welcome by, at Greenfield, . 

 Blight, pine tree, concerning the, ..... 

 Board of Agriculture. See Agriculture, State Board of. 

 Bordeaux mixture, preparation of, .... . 

 Boston milk and butter supply, statistics of, . . 267, 269, 

 Bristol County Fair, Inc., bounty to the, .... 

 Brooks, Prof. Wm. P., essay by, on drainage. 

 Bureau, Cattle. See Cattle Bureau. 

 Bureau, Dairy. See Dairy Bureau. 

 Butter, renovated, in work of Dairj' Bureau, 

 Butter market, Boston, concerning the, .... 



14 



76 

 xxi 



82 

 351 



340 

 339 

 162 



337 

 341 



348 



343 



352 

 342 



XXV 



72 

 17 



307 



367 

 270 

 3, 8 

 370 



267 

 267 



